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EDITORIAL
S
o here I am again, filling in for another editorial.
Perhaps this bitter tirade is merely the product of my own
No sooner had I walked out the Critic door than I was
underwhelming overseas experiences. On the whole, my
abruptly yanked back through it, sustaining slight
foreign adventures have been relatively few, relatively brief,
damage to my right rotator cuff in the process. No matter;
and relatively tame. I went to the US for six weeks when
the role’s sex appeal makes its menial pay and questionable
I was nine. I remember it largely as an indistinct blur of
social value worthwhile, my days as a promising sportsman
canyons and relatives, interspersed with Disneyland, which,
ended some time before they had commenced, and the
while great, was hardly the point. I went on a school trip to
ability to service myself with my left hand was a skill long
France when I was 16, to which my parents contributed at
in need of cultivating.
least $2000. The trip introduced me to marijuana but not, disappointingly, sex. My last international sojourn was a
This week is Critic’s “travel” issue. Travel is one of those
week-long trip to Sydney to visit my then-girlfriend, a trip
concepts that society deems irresponsible, nay treasonous,
from which I returned broke and single.
to dislike, somewhat like apple pie, diversity, and pacifism. But I’m one of those pesky naysayers. I say, “Nay, apple
The point is, if you’re going to travel, do it right. Do things
pie’s gluten quotient makes me fart, celebrating diversity
you’ve never done before (#YOLO and all that), come back
for its own sake masks the fact that some people are less
with great stories, and don’t just do the same shit you can
enlightened than others, and pacifism only works until it
do at home. Brittany Mann climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (page
gets pancaked by a tank.”
16) and it was the worst eight days of her life, but hey, at least she can tell people about that time she was shoved up
Many New Zealanders yearn to voyage beyond our pris-
a mountain while covered in piss and blood. My flatmate has
tine shores to the wondrous places beyond. Peer-reviewed
a friend called “Jack the Crazy Italian,” who can allegedly
sources like The Movies tell us that foreign lands hold great
spin a good travel yarn. I’ve never met Mr. Crazy Italian, but
wisdom that will make us better people. But in contrast
I’ve heard some of his stories second-hand, and if they’re
to the pervasive travel-agency propaganda that fills
true, his name is well-earned.
young, impressionable New Zealand minds, Critic is here to douse your romantic assumptions with the polluted
Pure hedonism is all well and good, but don’t waste a ton
waters of misadventure.
of money on something you can do at home with all your friends (unless you’ve got a ton of money to waste, in which
This is no starry-eyed, New-Zealand-as-Godzone paean
case more power to you). Dunedin’s got some beaches. Go
– let’s face it, this country is boring and often quite shit,
take drugs there.
and I don’t blame people for wanting to leave. The problem is that young Kiwis are all too eager to buy into superficial
- Sam McChesney
overseas adventures that often amount to little more than taking drugs on a beach. (But hey, at least you got that sweet new cover photo for your Facebook page, amirite?)
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NEWS
Too many cats hanging out at Murray’s been the finder and reporter of all six dead cats, By Josie Cochrane
a Facebook user commented that “serial killers
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often inject themselves into an investigation.” t least six pet cats have been found
Critic has been assured that Murray is not the
dead, some hung from trees, at Navy
subject of suspicion.
Park in South Dunedin. The ongoing
suspicious deaths have occurred since December
SPCA Otago inspector Julie Richardson says it is
2012, with the latest cat being found on Saturday
“sickening,” however “we don’t know how they
27 April of this year.
died. The cats might have been found dead by the person who decided to hang them.”
Senior Constable Ruth Parsons says, “We’ve had
The wilful mistreatment of animals can result
this sort of thing with cats from time to time,
in up to five years’ imprisonment, a $100,000
but not found them hanging from a tree.” She
fine, or both.
believes “it is a wee bit of a concern. If they’re willing to do that to animals, then it can lead on
There has been a nationwide increase in cat
to other things.”
deaths since Gareth Morgan’s controversial anti-cat campaign began. His “Cats to Go” website
The incident was reported on the Dunedin Police
includes statements such as “your cat is not
Facebook page, asking the public to report any
innocent,” and “the fact is that your furry friend
suspicious behaviour. Responses on the page
is actually a friendly neighbourhood serial kill-
included “Sicko needs to be caught”; “That’s just
er.” So as to avoid looking like a killer himself,
effen sick!” and the exceptionally insightful “I
Morgan’s site does include “we don’t suggest you
bet hu evas doin it is on k2.”
knock your favourite furry friend on the head.”
Critic feels this statement does not make up
Richardson says the case is still open, but “noth-
The latest victim was Smoky, who was found
for the whole website’s cat-hating philosophy,
ing has come to light.” She urges people to “keep
hanging from a tree by his owner, Murray
although we’ve become dog people ourselves
their cats inside at night,” and to get in contact
Shieffelbien. In light of the fact that Murray has
since hanging Howie Staples late last year.
if they see anything suspicious.
World record attempts
Weetbix in a certain time frame, a feat that has never been attempted before. Although he is still waiting on confirmation from Guinness World Records, Gawn is hoping to fulfil his dreams of adding a world record to his CV.
By Bella Macdonald
O
When Critic asked Gawn why he had not entered tago University students are in the
for a world record in his outstanding ability to
running to break 10 world records during
scull a bottle of wine, as proven in his elector-
Re-Orientation Week at an event or-
al campaign, he stated that records must be
ganised by OUSA.
“non-drinking-related.” This is unfortunate for most students, as that is really their only skill.
Students who are interested in breaking records have submitted their record idea to OUSA, who
One member of the grape throwing/catching
record because it would obviously pull all the
have then gone on to co-ordinate with Guinness
duo, Laurie Evans, said one of the reasons he
middys,” he said.
World Records. So far, 10 ideas have been sub-
wants to break this record is because “the guy
mitted which include grape throwing/catching,
who has the record at the moment spends his
This is the first year that OUSA have been in-
Marmite eating, a nerf gun battle and a bouncy
whole life breaking records, and the grape one
volved in an event to break world records. Gawn
castle marathon.
is one of his favourites. It’s kind of the reason I
stated that “it’s a good activity to get out there,
wanted to take it off him.”
it enables mingling.”
Administrative Vice President Zac Gawn, who
Aside from having the world record in his name,
Gawn also said that anyone who is interest-
will also be entering the event. He has submitted
Evans admitted the real reason behind this at-
ed in breaking a record should contact him at
the challenge of eating the largest quantity of
tempt: “I basically decided to go for the world
adminvp@ousa.org.nz
The event is being organised by OUSA’s
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NEWS
Lama drama harms Cull’s karma
community regards the Dalai Lama with “affection and respect.” Cull declined to be interviewed by Critic, claiming to be busy with hearings on the DCC’s Annual Plan. In a written statement, Cull said he had “nothing much to say” on the visit, other than it being “the Dalai’s gig.” Cull will instead be attending a Local Government New Zealand meeting in Wellington.
By Jack Montgomerie
While Cull insisted that the event was not a civic
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function, he pointed out that Councillor Jinty unedin Mayor Dave Cull has retracted
MacTavish would be welcoming the Lama “on
what he calls a “dismissive and unnec-
behalf of the city.” When asked about the visit, Cr.
essary slight” he made against the Dalai
MacTavish said the Mayor had formalised an ear-
Lama, but still will not meet him when he visits
lier commitment she had made to greet the Lama
Dunedin on 11 June.
in her capacity as a Councillor by contacting the trust in charge of the visit. She believes that the
After describing the Lama as “the leader of a
public lecture about ethics and happiness “has
minority sect” last week, Cull now says that the
to be a good thing for our community.”
Dunedin – New Zealand’s Detroit
A less exciting metaphor than you’d think.
Cardboard swords slay selwyn’s hordes By Jack Montgomerie
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elwyn College’s residents flogged one of their favourite dead horses last Wednesday afternoon when they took
over the Clocktower lawn for the annual Lindski Battle. A dozen ex-residents were pitted against more than 100 Selwyn “knights” and “nurses” in the annual pacifist skirmish.
By Jamie Breen
S
The battle, named after its original faux-imperial tudents are to Dunedin what Instagram
Russian combatants, began with a customary
is to a tween: #important. Or, as the ODT
exchange of flour and water bombs between
wittily put it, Dunedin is New Zealand’s
its cardboard-armoured belligerents across
Detroit, if postgraduate and international student
the Leith. The Selwyn-knights then crossed a
numbers are compared to car manufacturers:
footbridge to attack the motley crew of “exies”.
lose them and the economy loses, too. Lab coat-clad nurses like Molly Reynolds disUniversity of Otago lecturer Paul Hansen said, “It
pensed a life-preserving concoction to those
could be that young people in general are ques-
struck down by a variety of swords, spears and
tioning the value of further investment in their
flails. “We can feed them whatever we want,”
education – weighing up the costs (e.g. fees and
chuckled Reynolds, clutching a drink bottle filled
foregone income while they study) against the
with an unspecified red mixture.
benefits of getting a university degree. Perhaps the balance has shifted away from a degree being
Despite their numerical inferiority, the ex-res-
as good an investment as it used to be. Perhaps
idents put up a spirited fight, but a final show-
going to university isn’t seen as being as fun as
down on the museum lawn left them defeated
it used to be?”
until next year.
Due to the number of student enrollments falling
Morale-boosting chants followed from the
since its peak in 2010, universities may begin
Anglican residence, including such gems as
to suffer. “If student numbers keep falling, the
“Walking through the park and what do I see /
financial pressure on the University will increase.
numbers are bad news for universities and for
Fourty fuckin’ Knoxie bitches staring at me / I
Fewer students mean less income.”
the country as a whole,” Walker told Critic. “The
fucked thirty-eight then my balls turned blue /
universities need postgraduate students to attract
So I whacked it off and jacked it off and screwed
Green MP Holly Walker believes the drop in
funding and boost their research reputation, and
the other two / When I die I’m goin’ to hell / And
postgraduate enrollments is related to the
they won’t be happy if the downward trend con-
I’ll fuck the devil’s daughter and his wife as well.”
Government’s cuts to student allowances for
tinues.” Hence Walker’s doomed Members Bill to
postgraduate students. “Declining student
undo this legislation, covered in last week’s Critic.
Charming.
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NEWS The Otago Psychology department has been ranked 15th worldwide and is New Zealand’s top-ranking department of any subject. This follows the recent distinction in the New Zealand Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) quality evaluation, in which the faculty was found to be the highest-scoring academic unit for research quality of any discipline in New Zealand. Otago also ranked highest in New Zealand for History and Archaeology, at 24th. The Faculty of Law came 32nd worldwide, behind Victoria (19th) and Auckland (24th). However, Prof. Hayne says “Otago was ranked clearly first in the field of legal research in PBRF, which is a more rigorous measure,” and described Otago’s Law faculty as “world-class.” “Simply to be ranked already places you amongst
A degree from Otago might just get you a job
History and Archaeology, English Language and
the best of universities worldwide,” Prof. Hayne
Literature, and Law also placed in the top 50.
continued, “and to be ranked in the top 100 in any
By Josie Cochrane
The QS Rankings are decided by academic peer
petitive ranking system. “Our students should
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reviews, citations of published research per fac-
feel confident that, when they graduate, they
he 2013 QS World University Rankings
ulty, and assessments of each subject by major
will be more than prepared to take their place
by Subject have been released, with Otago
employers. Prof. Hayne believes “this ranking is
on the international stage with their peers from
ranked among the top 100 institutions
directly positive for students as they look ahead
around the world,” says Prof. Hayne.
subject areas is outstanding.” Auckland was feaProfessor Harlene Hayne, Vice Chancellor of the
tured in the top 50 in 17 subjects, making it New
University, says, “We are delighted, especially
Zealand’s highest-ranked university overall,
to have improved our rankings in 11 of the 30
but did not make the top 20 in any one subject.
subject areas QS considers, and to have 12 subject areas in the top 100 worldwide.”
Otago, Auckland, Victoria and Massey universities all featured in the top 50 of this very com-
in the world in 12 subject areas. Psychology,
to becoming graduates.”
Government throws more money at research a series of goals, which, if they are achieved,
co-operation between organisations will be
By Bella Macdonald
would have major and enduring benefits for
required to achieve good results. “None of these
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New Zealand,” a press release from the Ministry
challenges will be funded to a single organisa-
of Business, Innovation & Employment stated.
tion,” Blaikie stated.
tago University is hoping to get their hands on a chunk of the Government’s $73.5 million budget for research pur-
Deputy Vice Chancellor of Otago University,
The challenges range from “Ageing well” to
poses following the announcement of 10 National
Professor Richard Blaikie, likened the challeng-
“Resilience to nature’s challenges,” covering a
Science Challenges.
es as equivalent to some of history’s biggest
wide range of areas and research demands which
moments. “It’s a bit like the moon-landings in
will require resources from not only universities,
The budget was announced on 1 May by John
the 1960s. Everyone’s aware that Kennedy said
but also government organisations and other
Key and will be added to last year’s $60 million
that ‘by the end of the decade we will have an
specialist groups.
budget to fund these challenges, three of which
American on the moon.’ He set the challenge
are set to be implemented by the end of 2013.
and this is a bit the same,” Blaikie stated. “We
Bailkie believes that research is important in
set goals and we achieve them and it’s a better
order to be “educated with current knowledge
place for that.”
that comes out of research, rather than just out
The challenges, which were set by Key and Education Minister Steven Joyce, have been “de-
of textbooks that are out of date, so it’s really im-
signed to take a more strategic approach to the
While Otago will be competing against other
portant to have that research for discipline-based
government’s science investment by targeting
universities and organisations for the funding,
research and scholarship.”
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NEWS
Justice Davani By Claudia Herron
T
he 17th New Zealand Law Foundation Ethel Benjamin Commemorative Address was given by Justice Catherine Davani, of
the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court, on 8 May. Her thought-provoking talk in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery touched on the pressure to repeal sorcery laws in PNG. A recent, highly-publicised spate of killings has cast light on the horrific murders of women that occur frequently in PNG. 2009 saw the largest number of massacres. Police commanders confirmed 50 killings related to acts of sorcery, but Justice Davani believes more were not reported or recorded. According to Justice Davani, sorcery, a subject unfamiliar to most New Zealanders, “is a belief. It is deeply engrained in the emotions of people, in almost all regions of [PNG].”
there is talk about repealing the Sorcery Act, the criminal law has always been there to deal with
Whilst sorcery was once a “localised secret and
these serious issues.”
protected practice governed strictly by custom,” ranging from healing to magical powers, it is now
Davani drew attention to a case involving two
at the cusp of abolition due to public pressure.
men who went into a woman’s house, tied both
“The Government believes that the repeal of
her hands, blindfolded her, and then decapitated
the present Sorcery Act will somehow enhance
her using a machete. The two accused argued that
prosecution of [sorcery killings], and eventually
the killing was justified because the woman had
secure convictions.”
killed both of the men’s parents through witch-
ODT exposes exposer
craft. The criminal law in PNG does not provide
By Zane Pocock
In February this year, 20-year-old Kepari Leniata
for sorcery as a defence to murder. Rather, it is a
was stripped naked and burned alive on the
custom that the courts have to deal with. In this
outskirts of the Western Highlands Capital of
case, the court imposed the maximum penalty
Mount Hagan, due to suspicions of witchcraft.
for murder – the death penalty – for what was
Justice Davani drew attention to an editorial in
deemed to be an “execution” or “payback killing.”
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a PNG newspaper, which condemned the attack
ast Tuesday 7 May, the ODT published their best article of the year. Entitled “Dunedin teen shakes bare bottom
at police,” the 64-word piece exposes a 17-year-old Dunedin man who “allegedly
and stated that the “frequency in occurrence of
As one of 25 judges in a country of more than
[shook] his bare bottom at police officers
these barbaric acts warrants the intervention of
eight million people, Justice Davani has delivered
while standing in the middle of Eglinton
our political leaders.”
a breadth of judgments throughout her career.
Rd.” Here, Critic aims to more than double
She maintained that there were means to punish
that word count, making a mountain out
Justice Davani, who has 28 years’ legal experience
sorcery killings and that depriving the country of
of the molehill the ODT made out of a bum.
and was appointed to the National and Supreme
a custom so embedded in their culture may not
Court of PNG in 2001, questions the move to repeal,
be the best answer. “Although the Government
Police told the ODT “he dropped his pants
noting that there are already “laws in place that
and non-government organisations are calling
and shook his behind at police,” before
deal with people who kill.” She remarked that the
for this Sorcery Act to be repealed, it is obvious
completing an about-turn and exposing
distinction between evil and innocent sorcery
that accused persons who kill persons suspected
the family jewels.
needed to be drawn, as in some cases it would
of being sorcerers and witches can be arrested
not be necessary for the law to interfere.
and charged with manslaughter, willful murder
One commenter on the ODT ’s website
or murder.”
questioned, “Was it the bare bum or the
Davani spoke about the dilemma faced in PNG
subsequent bobbleys that got him in trou-
as to whether the rights of people who are called
The address was organised by the Otago Women’s
ble?” – a question Critic implores police
sorcerers should in fact be properly addressed by
Lawyers Society (OWLS), in conjunction with the
to answer as they have seen both sides
the courts. “PNG is now at a crossroads. There is
University of Otago and the New Zealand Law
of the story.
a clash of custom and western laws … although
Foundation.
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NEWS
Bouncing off the Halls “Chuck it in boss” discovery. Critic further speculates that a real-life
Police render point-proving tactics irrelephant
by Thomas Raethel
demonstration of the reproductive process is
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rarely witnessed in the hallowed halls of St.
by Staff Reporter
ue to unforeseen circumstances, the
Margaret’s and the College’s many male Health
much-venerated “Bouncing off the
Science students would have been happy to take
Halls” column began a prolonged hia-
a break to watch it, if only their study timetable
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tus in October 2011. For those unfamiliar with
allowed for such a blatant indulgence.
the column, it served as a weekly summary of
n elephant was discovered in the Critic office last Thursday. The elephant appeared in the room while the Critic
staff were writing that week’s news. It is unclear
unsavoury acts in student hostels throughout
Even the illustrious Knox College is not spared
what the elephant’s motives were. The elephant
Dunedin. Thankfully, Critic has elected to resur-
from sexual intrigue. What follows is a special
was eventually removed by the police, and has
rect the column. Be warned – stories contained
mention of some amusing events that took place
declined to comment on the incident.
in “Bouncing off the Halls” are often disturbing
in O-Week. A couple of first-year Knox residents
and sometimes downright depressing.
were characteristically smitten with each other’s
Senior Detective Frank Bowden of the Dunedin
company and accordingly conducted sexual in-
Police yesterday confirmed to Critic that elephant
A male resident of Salmond College chose to visit
tercourse in one of their rooms. Upon realising
sightings were rare in Dunedin. “I haven’t seen an
the Monkey Bar on a Thursday night, something
their neighbours were engaged in strikingly
elephant this size in some time,” he said. “How
Critic (or any civilised person) cannot begin to comprehend. After
“After prowling the dance floor for some time, the gentleman in question settled for a mysterious mature Maori lady and proceeded to invite her back to his room.”
similar activities, the
it managed to fit in that room is beyond me.”
two couples converged and participated in
Police removed the elephant, whose name is be-
what could only be de-
lieved to be Dennis, after its presence was deemed
scribed as the smallest
disruptive by OUSA management. There were con-
orgy possible – a four-
cerns that the floor of the Critic office, which was
some. This “awesome
constructed to bear the weight of spindly wannabe
mature Maori lady and proceeded to invite her
foursome” was convened for some time, until
hacks rather than enormous proboscides, would
back to his room. After engaging in pre-coital
one of the female participants grew tired of the
collapse and crush OUSA’s events team.
trivialities, the lucky lady sprawled her nude
orgy and departed elsewhere. Her partner main-
body on his bed, spreading her legs wide. At this
tained his presence, but refrained from joining
However, Skye Rayne of PETA criticised the po-
point, she invited the hunk to “chuck it in boss,” a
in, remaining only as a self-pleasuring voyeur.
lice’s actions, saying that Dennis the elephant
prowling the dance floor for some time, the gentleman in question settled for a mysterious
command he soon obliged. Perhaps the strangest
had every right to be there. “Dennis is the official
part of this harrowing tale was that The Boss did
After these three enthralling pieces of fresher
elephant of that room,” she said. “If Dennis was
not regret his actions and was glad to recount
erotica, there is no doubt readers will be asking for
removed from the room without warning, Critic
his experience to fellow residents the following
more. Unfortunately, a young lady of Cumberland
may be on shaky grounds legally.”
morning. Top marks.
College will be the final focus of this column and her story is not sexual in nature. After overin-
The story was picked up by the Otago Daily Times,
Meanwhile at St. Margaret’s College, a female
dulging in alcoholic beverages, the girl decided
which ran with the headline “An Elephant in the
resident was feared missing for 24 hours by her
to relieve herself in public while her friend acted
Room at Critic.” This was a play on the idiom
friends and minders. After finally investigating
as a guard. As her relief soon escaped her urethra,
“elephant in the room,” which is used to describe
her room (Critic notes this would be an obvi-
urination became defecation. The stench of her
an obvious or awkward truth that is deliberately
ous first place to look), a Residential Assistant
faecal matter appalled her friend’s senses to the
ignored. In this case, it also referred to the fact
was shocked to discover the girl in question
point of vomiting, undoubtedly assisted by her
that an elephant had literally been in the room.
had in fact been engaged in sexual relations
intoxication. Thus followed a scene that presum-
with an unknown male for the entirety of her
ably revolved around four unique bodily fluids,
It is believed that Dennis will never forget the
disappearance, and was still going at it upon
the fourth being both the girls’ tears.
incident.
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SPORTS experience and, at 50, is still relatively young. The main reservation, however, is his lack of experience running a big club. Everton operates with a small stadium, a limited budget, and an owner looking to sell rather than invest. Bigger clubs regularly snap up Everton’s top players, recent examples including Mikel Arteta and Jack Rodwell. In contrast, Manchester United has huge revenues, huge debt, and huge players on huge wages. The pressures on the manager are, correspondingly, huge. Ferguson was famous for
Ferguson finally fucks off
his strict man-management and his principle that no player was bigger than the club. He had no problem with letting star players leave –
When Ferguson arrived at Man Utd in 1986, the
Jaap Stam, David Beckham, Roy Keane, Cristiano
by Sam McChesney
club had not won the league in 20 years. After a
Ronaldo – when their egos grew too large. Now it
T
slow start, he won the inaugural Premier League
appears that Wayne Rooney, whose career began
he big news in sport over the last week
in the 1992-3 season, setting off a two-decade
under Moyes but whom the latter ended up suing
has been the retirement of Sir Alex
era of Man Utd dominance. The club has now won
over remarks in Rooney’s autobiography, wants
Ferguson, the manager of Manchester
13 league titles under Ferguson’s management
to move away from Man Utd (Bayern Munich
United. We’ve been here before – Ferguson
(five in the last seven seasons), as well as five FA
seems the most likely destination). How Moyes
announced his retirement at the start of 2002
Cups, four League Cups, two Champions League
deals with this situation will be his first big test.
only to perform a U-turn at the end of the sea-
titles, and the Club World Cup.
son – but this time it’s for realsies. Ferguson’s
So what can we expect from Moyes? Expect him
successor, Everton manager David Moyes, has
So it’s farewell to the greatest manager of the
to strengthen Man Utd’s midfield, long identified
already been confirmed.
modern era. The big question now is how Moyes
as the club’s main weakness. His selections will
will fare in the role. Long considered the front-
likely be prudent and youth-oriented. Everton’s
To its detractors, Man Utd has become synon-
runner to take charge after Ferguson, Moyes has
star midfielder, Marouane Fellaini, would seem
ymous with favourable refereeing decisions;
been the manager of Everton for 11 years. During
an obvious choice to follow Moyes to his new
arrogant, bandwagon-jumping fans; and a
that period, the club has consistently punched
club. Ryan Giggs, who is now 39 and has played
frustrating ability to keep winning things year
above its weight, finishing in the top seven
his entire career under Ferguson, is unlikely to
after year. Inseparable from all of this has been
on seven occasions and recently supplanting
feature prominently, but Moyes will look to get
the gum-chewing, purple-faced Ferguson, a
Liverpool as Merseyside’s top club.
the most out of Michael Carrick after the latter’s
man adored by Man Utd fans and grudgingly respected by all others.
impressive 2012-3 season. Finally, expect less Moyes therefore has plenty of Premier League
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NEWS handouts and theft (including rummaging through trash cans), and will ruthlessly swallow smaller birds whole when given the chance. They have even been known to land on live whales when they surface for air, in order to gouge pieces of flesh from the whales’ exposed backs. It is predicted that the inconvenience presented by seagulls’ steadily climbing numbers and incessant pestilence will be enough to spur
Hunting season not immune to “urban drift”
Kiwis to hunt them mercilessly. the Department of Conservation and the Ministry
Indeed, since the new regulations were
of Justice have given seagull hunting the go-
issued, many enthusiastic sportsmen have
ahead for this season, graciously offering the
begun preparing for a bountiful season. Duck
By Campbell Ecklein
possibility of an extension into early springtime
hunters often build elaborately camouflaged
A
“if a decent percentage haven’t been taken out by
blinds (known colloquially as maimai) to conceal
s the three-month-long duck-shooting
then.” Although many citizens are thrilled by this
themselves from ducks – it appears that the
season commences for 2013, hunters
recent development, others question the point
same approach is now being applied to seagull
across the nation are heading out in
of wasting bullets on the feathered parasites.
hunting, the only difference being the environ-
anticipation of another good haul. This popular
While seagull meat is generally rumoured to
ment that they are attempting to blend into.
recreational pursuit has long been an autumn
be “almost inedible” and “downright stringy,”
Instead of lying in wait for their prey beside riv-
tradition for locals and tourists alike –every
biologists report that seagulls’ carcasses usually
ers, lakes, and ponds, these enterprising hunters
year, New Zealand welcomes tens of visitors
contain enough inorganic material that they
are building their blinds next to beaches, chil-
who travel here for the express purpose of bag-
could conceivably be used as “an efficient al-
dren’s playgrounds and McDonald’s parking lots.
ging some premium waterfowl. This year, how-
ternative fuel source,” and encourage people to
Despite widespread consternation at the prospect
ever, Fish and Game NZ have broadened hunters’
make the most of the opportunity to keep their
of firearms being used in such populated areas,
horizons by adding an additional bird species
petrol expenses low this winter.
government officials wish to assure the public
to the list of acceptable game: seagulls.
Seagulls are notoriously aggressive scav-
that all hunters are responsible, licensed gun
Due to the fact that our towns and coastlines
engers and the bane of beachgoers everywhere.
owners, and that the safety of their friends and
are currently overrun by these abhorrent pests,
Gulls often procure food from humans through
loved ones is unlikely to be endangered. Much.
After obtaining in-house CCTV shots of lone figure pilfering the delicacies, Campus Watch heard
“We’ll see if the judge believes that one,” the Proctor concluded.
a shower going whilst walking around campus
In College news, one group of freshers were
one night. Thinking it odd, the Watchers entered
“quite startled when they were sitting there
to find a young man had been living on campus.
watching TV in the common room and a naked
“He was a student quite some years ago,
man wandered in, sat down, and said he was
Proctology He didn’t mention red cards this week
isn’t anymore, and I think things have got to him.
there to watch Dr. Who. Campus Watch was called
Now he’s got an appointment with the courts and
and they gave the man a towel, commenting “He
won’t be coming back to University for a while,”
was obviously in need of the time police, so we
the Proctor told Critic.
called them, and now he’s getting some help at
By Zane Pocock
walking out of the Central library with a laptop
The Proctor’s final piece of advice was to “be
“
and some sunnies,” the Proctor continued. “As
careful fetching balls from roofs. One young lass
A number of our University departments
it happened, the owner of the gear was coming
was up on the roof and went through a skylight.
have tea, bikkies and cakes in their tea
back as he was walking out with it, to whom
Luckily she wasn’t injured, but unluckily it will
rooms,” the Proctor kicked off this week,
the gear-grabber said, ‘Oh, is this yours? I was
cost her more than $500 for the damage.” Wise
“and they noticed that these were going faster
picking it up and giving it to my mate, I thought
words indeed – may this be a lesson to us all to
than normal.”
they were his.’
keep our balls within reach at all times.
“Another resident of Dunedin was found
a mental health agency.”
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critic.co.nz/consprank One of the best phone pranks to play on conservative parents.
thebillionaireshop.com “From the yacht to the restaurant ... Helicopters.” Introducing The Billionaire Shop. So much yes.
WORLD WATCH Boston, USA | Researchers have developed an injection that can deliver oxygen directly to the bloodstream of patients who can’t breathe.
Iceland | Names you can give your child are controlled by law in Iceland, with 1,800 girl options and 1,700 boy options.
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FACTS & FIGURES
BABEIN’ Wins of the Week from Wellington’s Student Magazine
So long, and thanks for all the fails.
1) 2)
Salient has pretty infographics. Infographics are the future. Critic tried to use infographics a couple of times, but ended up rambling incoherently about the price of ivory.
Critic published reviews of the films Eternity and Rust and Bone on Monday 29 April and Monday 15 April, respectively. Salient published reviews of both films on Monday
6 May. By this point, Eternity was screening once a day (in mid-afternoon) at one cinema
Night vision goggles are green because the human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other colour.
in Wellington, while Rust and Bone had finished its run altogether. Clearly Salient treats its film writeups less as “movie reviews” and more as “Pirate Bay previews,” in which case, they are way ahead of the curve.
3)
Salient has regular reports on VUWSA executive meetings. Critic tried to revive “Execrable” a couple of times over the last year, but its reporters kept dying of starvation
and boredom and the body removal costs were racking up. Salient’s Molly McCarthy is
It costs around US$13.22 to make a denim shirt in America, compared to $3.72 in Bangladesh.
clearly made of sterner stuff. Either that, or VUWSA’s notorious inefficiency and dysfunctionality lend its exec meetings sufficient dramatic tension to stave off the cold fingers of the Reaper.
4)
Critic’s sturdy, rough-and-ready paper displays a workmanlike functionality. It’s a magazine built for its harsh, uncompromising environment. The 80gsm uncoated
paper is also great for rolling joints. Salient, however, is made of the most delicate, gossamer-thin tissue. “I am a precious thing,” Salient whispers to you seductively. “Caress my
29% The percentage of America’s registered voters who think an armed rebellion might soon be necessary.
form with care.”
5)
Despite being riddled with punctuation and grammatical errors, Salient’s lead news story was well-constructed, relevant to students, and informative. B+
The foetuses of sand sharks fight a cannibalistic battle with their siblings inside the womb, resulting in only one survivor.
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In New Orleans, public defenders have approximately seven minutes to devote to each case. If you can’t afford a lawyer, you’re fucked.
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MANN VS. WILD
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Mann vs. Wild: MANN VS. WILD
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By Brittany Mann
lthough the prospect of doing
nerves had Sam not concluded the phonecall
so was all that got me through
saying that he “wouldn’t let me die out there,” I
the experience, it has taken me
hung up the phone, fears assuaged. How hard,
months to work up the nerve to
really, could it possibly be?
write about what I now refer to, usually in a sepulchral whisper, as “the worst eight days of my
And so, it begins
After hours of white-knuckledly clenching the seat in front of me and making anguished eye
A rough start
entire life.” The following is an
contact with other passengers, we finally disembarked. The landscape was grey as far as the eye could see: rocks, gravel and dirt,
account of my experience
That was in August, but the final week of 2012
occasionally interrupted by splodges of snow
climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, a
rolled around soon enough. Having spent
and tussock. Trying to breathe a sigh of relief, I
5895m dormant volcano in
Christmas getting horrifically sunburnt in
found I couldn’t. The lightheaded breathlessness
Tanzania, over New Year’s, 2013.
Zanzibar, I flew north to the town of Moshi in the
associated with high altitude would last
shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro to meet Sam the day
throughout the trip and my dependence on
before our climb. To say I arrived in a state of
altitude sickness medication would reach almost
emotional and physical compromise would be
shelveable levels.
How hard could it possibly be?
an understatement. The day before, I had been
After hemorrhaging US$2,500 on an eight-day
discharged from a Zanzibari hospital in which I
Before setting off, I had my first experience with
package (roughly $1,800 too much and three
had been certain I was going to die. In my fragile
a squat toilet. Despite having spent the preceding
days too long, I would realise), I looked up
state, I then proceeded to miss my flight and
two months alone in godforsaken central East
Kilimanjaro’s Wikipedia page. “Some estimate
arrived late at night, hours behind schedule, to
Africa, I had somehow managed to avoid this
that more people have died to date trekking up
find out the tour company had overbooked
experience until now. The “toilet” was a tiny,
Kilimanjaro than Everest,” the page said. “In
the hotel.
stinking hole surrounded by piss and shit in the
August 2007, four trekkers died within a week.”
floor of a doorless wooden hut covered in
To quell the trepidation rising within me, I called
Somehow, though, the next day Sam and I
Kiswahili graffiti. Having made my contribution
my friend, Sam, who had convinced me to sign
managed to get ourselves on a bus that would
to the mess but not the graffiti, we set off – me,
up. “Don’t worry,” he reassured me. “It’s not a
take us from Moshi to the mountain. Our
Sam, our guides Tom and John, and our ten
technical climb.”
Tanzanian guide, Tom, soon informed us that
porters who were never actually introduced to
despite having paid to do the priciest, most
us. These men would haul all our gear plus
I had never actually been hiking before; indeed,
scenic route with the highest chance of summit
enough food, water and tents for all of us through
an ex-boyfriend had once even used this as an
success, weather conditions meant we now
the pissing rain, hail and snow for the next
excuse to break up with me. But Sam was
had to take the cheap and nasty route. My
eight days.
confident that with a bit of training, I’d be fine.
crushing disappointment was soon replaced
(I may as well mention now that my “training”
by sheer, unadulterated terror as the “weather
The seemingly ridiculous luxury of not carrying
ultimately consisted of heaving myself from
conditions” resulted in our bus careering
your own stuff was something I had scoffed at
Cargill St to the NEV in the dead of night all of
backwards down the very steep and muddy
in the months prior, but I soon realised that, had
once.) While it would have been better for my
road with alarming regularity.
I needed to carry anything other than myself up
Mt. Kilimanjaro
MANN VS. WILD
“The “toilet” was a tiny, stinking hole surrounded by piss and shit in the floor of a doorless wooden hut covered in Kiswahili graffiti.” that mountain, I would have wandered off onto
crewmembers milled about bringing them
to purchasing attire appropriate for climbing
the frozen tundra like an Inuit elder who has
basins of hot water (the ratio of trekkers to
Africa’s highest mountain.
become a burden to her tribe, never to be seen
Tanzanians was roughly 1:5). After breakfast, we
nor heard from again.
packed up our stuff and began our day’s hike to
In contrast to other trekkers who would not have
the next camp.
looked out of place on a lunar expedition, I ended
Nonetheless, the arrangement felt like
up climbing the tallest freestanding peak in the
neocolonialism at its worst. The poorly-paid
In my memory, the days blur into one. I would
world in little more than a Pack-a-Parka and
porters, wearing endearingly odd combinations
start the day feeling chipper, if only because I
what I used to wear to pump class at Les Mills.
of weather-inappropriate clothing, would
had survived another night and was one day
The stuff I had bought was beyond crap quality
balance up to 40kg loads on their shoulders
closer to getting off the mountain. We would set
and accordingly, my thoughts were often
whilst trotting ahead of us, mountain-goat-like,
off with John in the lead while Tom would
consumed with ways to exact revenge on the
up sheer cliff faces. Soberingly, throughout the
supervise pack-down and then catch up with
staff at Kathmandu who sold me their life-
week we would pass freshly cut grasses and
us. The landscape became increasingly alpine,
threateningly shitty gear.
flowers laid in memoriam where porters had
with more snow and fewer plants. We would
recently died, a bit like Ginger in Black Beauty,
often stop to let porters pass us, and, conversely,
The rain soon morphed into giant Jaffa-sized
of overwork.
speed up to overtake larger groups. Sam referred
hail, which pounded us relentlessly to the
to these occasions, on which we would mosey
accompaniment of thunder and lightning. It
Although I had been assured it “wasn’t a
past a group of trekkers inching along with their
seemed to be generated directly from the cloud
technical climb,” within the first hour I had
redundant hiking poles, as “snail races.”
in which we were engulfed. I had found
removed my socks and boots to wade thigh-deep
Tanzanians to be a particularly cheerful bunch,
through a fast-flowing river. I had been under
By the end of the day, my morale would plummet
but on this occasion Tom gave me an
the impression the rainy season was on its way
to depths of which I had been hitherto unaware
uncharacteristic, thin-lipped grimace and
out. It wasn’t. After a few hours, we arrived at
I was capable. Inevitably, it would begin to rain
admitted that “I don’t like the rain, man.” I
our campsite, signed in and went to shelter in
and the day’s trek would conclude with a
resignedly thought that in the highly probable
our tent, which had been put up in record time
desperate scramble down a hillside/up a cliff-
event that I was struck by lightning, at least I
by our porters who somehow kept the inside
face/along a creek. Doggedly putting one foot
would maybe die swiftly. Maybe.
dry despite the deluge. The day ended with a
in front of the other on the uneven, slippery rocks,
multi-course hot dinner served by our softly
there would be no thought in my mind other
We made it to the sign-in hut and I poured the
spoken “waiter” whose name we didn’t catch on
than getting to the shelter of the sign-in hut. I
litre of water that had collected in the bottom of
the first day and never did find out. Our guide,
found this daily violent oscillation from one
my impotent day pack-cover onto the floor. In
Tom, paid us a visit and outlined the plan for the
emotional and physical extreme to another
the tent, I sat shuddering involuntarily from the
week. Keen to get a good night’s sleep, we
very draining.
cold. Sam – incurably positive, long-suffering
went to bed straight away. I had forgotten to
Sam – gingerly put his arm around my shoulders.
bring a pillow.
After a while, I looked at him. “You can’t honestly
Near-death experience #2 A long day’s journey into night in as many weeks
tell me,” I said between shivers, “that you thought that was fun.”
Summit night
Awakening bright and early, I discovered the
Day five was particularly traumatising. Our camp
tent was frozen. I surveyed the camp: we were
for that night was situated on top a cliff. We
above the cloud line, which felt strangely
trooped down one side of the valley and began
I would find out the next day that a man from
claustrophobic. Damp mist swirled and a score
our ascent up the other. The rain was bucketing
the UK had actually been killed by lightning in
of various-coloured tents were dotted across the
and I was soaked to the skin. Not normally frugal
that storm, making me feel both vindicated in
stony landscape. Bleary-eyed trekkers were
when it comes to clothes-buying, I had,
my terror and that the whole thing really wasn’t
stretching and yawning, while their
unfathomably, decided to skimp when it came
worth it. But the worst was yet to come.
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“Even apart from my bloody face and urine-soaked lower half, there were a number of factors that conspired that night to turn me into the world’s most objectively repulsive human.” On the night we were to climb to the summit, we
Climbing Kili proved my theory that everyone,
that week: knowing that almost everyone,
went to bed at 5pm, the idea being to wake up
religious or not, prays when they think they’re
regardless of age, experience or fitness, was
at 11pm and climb for six hours through the night
going to cark it. I found myself shamelessly
doing it tough. We achieved what Sir Edmund
to watch the sunrise from “the roof of Africa.”
whimpering Bible verses aloud, including (I wish
Hilary could not, but any sense of pride or awe
Packing myself with the fear of death and/or
I was kidding) that old classic “Though I walk
I might have felt was drowned out by one all-
failure, I barely slept. Awakening from a fitful
through the valley of the shadow of death …” It
consuming thought: “How the fuck am I going
slumber, I immediately sprouted an impressive
feels cringefully melodramatic to recall this now,
to get back down?”
bleeding nose. But outside, the snowy
but death from dehydration/hypothermia/
mountaintop was bathed ethereally in moonlight
altitude-induced pulmonary edema seemed
I had just climbed for six hours and was staring
beneath billions of stars, and a stream of
like a very real possibility at the time.
in the face of at least another three. I barely
headtorch lights could be seen winding its way,
waited around long enough for the obligatory
uninterrupted, to the summit. I had that bit from
I was informed later that my uncharacteristic
photos before turning around to start the long
Coldplay’s “Fix You” playing in my head and, in
display of vulnerability on this occasion was
journey back to the tent, which I managed with
that moment, I found myself inexpressibly
endearing rather than pitiful, but I have my
an artful combination of falling and being
touched by the gravity of the undertaking, and
doubts. Even apart from my bloody face and
dragged by the arm, once again, by John.
what it would invariably mean to all the different
urine-soaked lower half, there were a number
types of people summiting that night. Maybe
of factors that conspired that night to turn me
this wouldn’t be so bad.
into the world’s most objectively repulsive human. Having forgotten my gloves, I looked
The beginning of the end
I was struck down instantly by a UTI. Due to the
down at my peeling hands to see they had turned
horror of the Kili toilets I had purposefully
that sort of blackish color of a rotting corpse.
We made it back to the tent, had some kai, slept
dehydrated myself for the entire week and
Having forgotten tissues, Tom kept handing me
for a few hours and then hiked for another four
because of this, I would piss myself all the way
them with thinly-veiled disgust as my nose
to that night’s camp, bringing the total number
to 5895m. Fuck Coldplay – in no time at all that
steadily expelled globs of snot. My lips were
of hours hiking that day to 15. The next day, with
night turned into a Mandingo-esque battle
cracked, my breath was rancid and, thanks to
the end in sight, I was a new woman, and I
between my competing basic needs: I was
another unfortunate symptom of altitude, I was
hurtled down the mountainside past other
thirsty, but reluctant to drink the water that had
farting like a demonic Clydesdale.
trekkers still using their goddamn superfluous
frozen in my bottle because I was also numb
hiking poles, shedding layers of clothing and
with cold; and I was hungry, but eating made
It got to the point where I could only utter a single
peeled skin as the ecological zone became more
me feel nauseous and was, in any case,
word – “push” – at which Sam would dutifully
monkey-filled rainforest and less Arctic tundra.
impossible because my mouth was so dry.
put both his hands firmly on my arse and shove me up a particularly steep bit. I would make it
We made it to the bus and I collapsed into my
The exhaustion from the altitude, dehydration
to the summit like this, half-draped on Tom’s
seat, delirious with relief. John initiated a
and hunger was like nothing I had ever
shoulder with his arm around my waist, while
particularly enthusiastic rendition of “The
experienced and I kept needing to rest, despite
John hauled me by my other arm and Sam
Kilimanjaro Song,” and everyone on board
knowing it would only prolong the horror. Sam,
hustled from behind. It was the least dignified
clapped and sung along. Though I would
I would find out later, was very worried about
experience of my life (surpassed only by recent
normally pretend to be above such frivolity, I
me. At one particularly low point, I sat down on
Hyde St antics) and a good lesson in humility.
decided to not be a joy-killing fucktard, and
a rock and, with my head in our guide John’s
joined in.
chest and hands in his armpits, and murmured
We arrived at the top, having passed other
at the ground that I “didn’t want to die.”
trekkers who were literally doubled-over with exhaustion. This was all that got me through
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Getting Around the Orthodoxy By Loulou Callister-Baker
T
here is a possibility that I wrote this entire feature in order to begin with the fact that I was in New York over the summer break. With that in mind, I was in New York over the summer break. One night, I found myself in a SoHo loft, deep in conversation with an architect. In an alignment of bizarre coincidences, I soon discovered that this architect was part of the firm that designed Otago University’s Information Services Building (or as normal people like to call it, the library). Since returning to university, it continually strikes me how much history exists,
not only inside the University’s walls but also literally within, on top of, and around them. Furthermore, the process of creating a university campus involves such a variety of ideas and people that, like the design of the Archway Lecture Theatres, it is barely comprehensible.
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The Tunnel Prelude
W
hile the Otago settlement developed, one-eighth of the profits from the sale of land in Otago was kept aside for
“religious and educational uses” but funds remained limited due to the slow economic growth of the area. This changed after the discovery of gold in 1861, which briefly turned Dunedin into an industrial centre. Otago
N
ow don’t get me wrong, Dunedin is a very important city and I’m sure that the rest of the world views it this way. Thus I am certain that Dunedin’s fear of a Japanese invasion or bombings in WWII were well founded. However, only two words came to mind when I heard that, in anticipation of this catastrophe, our academic ancestors built a tunnel
beneath the University. Those two words were “paranoid schizophrenia.” This lesser-known tunnel is located underneath the Quadrangle and Geology buildings.
The Richardson
C
ritic’s editor convinced German tourists that Richardson was a product of New Zealand’s short-lived communist era. Another Critic staff member heard that this building was modelled on a prison for detaining overzealous students, from back in the glory days when riots were common and today’s apathy had not yet spread throughout the student community.
University was conceived in 1869, when the
The Richardson, completed in 1979, was formerly known as the Hocken building, but the Hocken
Otago Provincial Council provided 100,000
ended up moving to an old dairy factory on Anzac Avenue. The building’s current name comes from
acres of pastoral land as an endowment and
John Larkins Cheese Richardson, who was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University. There was
authorised the University to grant degrees in
appropriate uproar within a sector of the public when the building wasn’t called “Cheese.” This late
Arts, Medicine, Law and Music. In July of 1871,
Modernist building was designed by the Dunedin firm McCoy & Wixon – apparently the use of precast
the University’s three Professors opened the
concrete panels interlaced with glass passageways avoids the ruthless gridded feel that is typical
doors to students for the first time (the opening
of high rises. Although architect Ted McCoy was determined to avoid a diagrammatic and bland
party must have been awkwardly empty) and
outcome when creating such a large building, I have yet to meet one person who admires it.
the University has since developed into a 20,000 student strong institution. Although you may not realise that Dunedin extends beyond the Octagon, the University was
Commerce Building
its present site, previously known as the
F
Botanical Gardens Reserve. The Clocktower and
building is prime real estate on the post-town bonk circuit so those puddles you slip in on a Monday
Geology buildings represented a Gothic revival
morning might not be made of raindrops.
originally housed in the William Mason’s Post Office building (later the Stock Exchange) on Princes Street. However, with the completion of the Clocktower and Geology buildings in 1878 and 1879 respectively, the University moved to
urther on from this area is the comparatively modern Commerce building. Speculation abounds that the building was originally designed without a roof for somewhere either in Fiji or Hawaii. When the project fell through, the University bought the plans instead but had to retrofit a roof to the original design. This faulty collaborative effort has been used
to explain the building’s occasional leaks in heavy rain. A warning to you – allegedly the Commerce
style of architecture inspired by buildings on the Glasgow University campus in Scotland.
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Archway Lecture Theatres
T
he Archway Lecture Theatres have to be one of the most polarising buildings on campus. At least twice a week back in second-year law, this circle of identical-looking lecture rooms would spew a
confused, non-law student into our lecture theatre. In another class, it was reported that a student spontaneously threw up in one of the theatres and ran out. The bizarreness of Archway was embodied in a surreal, David Lynch-esque incident when the theatre’s emergency phone rung. After our lecturer questioned us as to whether he should answer it, he did so, and then proceeded to ask us whether anyone in the theatre was quietly dying. Nobody, including the dead person, had any idea what was going on. McCoy & Wixon designed archway as well, in 1974. Either the firm’s architecture doesn’t age well, or they were specifically employed to stimulate critical thinking. Although the building looks like a concrete spaceship discarded from the set of Startrek, it was actually modelled on Louis Kahn’s Tenton Bathhouse. Unfortunately, the intended central courtyard was discarded in favour of a poorly coordinated toilet block. The terror continues to the outside of Archway, which features a cluster of outdoor spiral staircases, jail-like toilets continuing the prison theme of the Richardson and four 1970s graphics painted on the building’s external
The Archway
E
walls. The four arrow graphics are waiting for a Da Vinci code assessment and I am certain the theatres have a central control where a squat alien resides, living out its days smoking cigarettes and wallowing in the repetitive grief of Property Law.
very day when you walk onto campus using one of the university’s infinite entrances, you’re entering wrong. Since its completion in 1914, the Archway
between Archway Lecture Theaters and the Quadrangle was the formal entrance to the University. The Archway used to be called the “Tunnel of Tears,” a nickname adopted from times when the notice boards that line its walls were used to post exam results. However, both the enactment of the Privacy Act and practicality (with around 20,000 students to deal with) has meant this was discontinued.
Clocktower
T
he Clocktower is a complex similar to Helen Clark – it is fun to take a photo with but most students don’t want to go inside. Although it was built in 1878, it was not until 1931 that it obtained its first clock,
which was donated by the University Chancellor at the time, Sir Thomas
The mysteries of the Archway continue if you walk through
Sidey. Between completion of the Clocktower and the addition of its clock,
it towards the Archway Lecture Theatres then turn to face it.
New Zealand’s first radio programme aired from its basement in 1921.
You may be surprised, as I was, at the extent of your inability to be observant. Carved in stone above Archway are figures
Today, the Clocktower houses only the University administration, but over
more grotesque than your ethereal aunt’s collection of Troll
the years it has been the focal point for the odd student protest, including
Dam dolls. Each figure represents the various branches of
in 1996 when the Council Chamber was occupied by students for several
learning, from Law to Mining (from the days when subjects
days to protest student fees. If you are a classy person (which you must
that provided students with practical skills weren’t a sign of
be because you’re reading Critic) and you have accidentally splattered
social inferiority).
mud on your boots, the Clocktower has a boot scraper right of the front steps (which were initially necessary because Dunedin’s streets were not
The final mystery of the Archway may have you mistrusting
paved until 1879). Finally, if for some reason you find yourself actually
everyone. It turns out that only one of the towers on the
inside the Clocktower, try and find the Council Chamber where old desktops
Archway gatehouse is actually real – the rest are solid
from lecture theatres with student carvings are displayed. One generation’s
concrete.
graffiti is another generation’s artifact.
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Burns Building This is Not a Phone Booth
I
after the University’s first Chancellor, Rev. Dr.
B
Thomas Burns, has become rather less holy than
universe. However, when I viewed the TARDIS for the first time, I wasn’t sure if it could be categorised
its namesake. One Monday last year, I had a
as “properly maintained.” If it were a TARDIS I’d go back in time to tell myself not to make the effort
three-hour gap between lectures and I decided
in searching for it. I’d also warn McCoy from McCoy & Wixon architects to stay away from Wixon.
am morally torn whether or not to tell you about this architectural quirk. Oh – you’ve convinced me. The Burns Building, named
ehind the Clocktower complex, facing onto the Quadrangle is an emergency phone. This phone is not just for ordinary emergencies: it also takes calls for cross-dimensional troubles. Some believe that this phone is actually a TARDIS; and everyone knows that a properly
maintained and piloted TARDIS can transport its occupants to any point in time, anywhere in the
to use the time to catch up on study in the library. I tightened the straps on my canvas backpack, feeling my books hot against my spine, eager to be caressed by my studious hands. However, as I made my way to a spare desk that had a direct view of the Burns building, I saw something that meant I could never go to that side of the library again. The head of a man was hunched over his body, moving back and forth.
Marples Building
T
he science buildings on Great King St also have their wonders. On your way to Great King, be sure to gaze at the green patch of grass outside the Food Court. This patch is known as Union Lawn and in the 19th century, when no student accommodation existed, students
were known to camp out here in order to attend classes.
A coldness went through me. After a few more head bobs, the man stood up, pressed something
Near the Cook is the Marples Building where the Zoology department now resides. The top floor of
behind him then washed his hands and I realised
this building has a deliberately sloping floor ending at a drainage gutter. This setup was arranged
I had just witnessed a staff member choking the
to wash away blood and other fluids from the times when the building housed the Dental School
snake. I looked up to the next floor and saw
– giving rise to the phrase, “head in the gutter.”
another staff member doing the same. The onesided glass of the Burns building is one-sided
Annexed to the Zoology building is the most exciting place on campus, the Glassblowing Unit. The
no more.
Glassblowing Unit makes an array of glass products. One of the unit’s recent projects involved making a replica glass snail shell to observe how a hermit crab fits inside a shell. Take your friends along – it’s open from Monday to Friday between 9.30am to 5.00pm.
Information Services Building
D
espite ten years of thorough planning, the library is not safe from oddity. There are two seat structures on the centre of
Lindo Ferguson Building
F
urther down Great King is the Lindo Ferguson Building. This building was originally designed in 1901, but due to lack of funds and the distraction of WWI, the building was only completed in 1927. During construction, the building had a railway track built on top so a steam crane
could move across the site to install the roof trusses and lift building materials.
the second floor that may cause you to re-think your study spot. Keeping with the theme of
The Lindo Ferguson Building was designed with two lift shafts – one of which was originally used
political movements predominant in the WWII,
to move bodies up from mortuary in the basement. The bodies were elevated using a hand-operated
the two identical study spots with four bent walls
rope lift system. The rope lift was too narrow to move bodies up on a gurney so instead, they were
resemble Swastikas from above. In stark contrast
propped up vertically, prompting ongoing complaints.
to the communist design of the Richardson building, these fascist structures were the only
The wonders of the Lindo Ferguson Building continue in its accommodation of the W.D. Trotter
way the University could subtly encourage
Anatomy Museum. The museum, established in 1874, displays an almost 50/50 ratio of donated
balanced political thinking.
bodies and models. Despite it being a lesser-known institution, it retains international significance thanks to its extensive collections. Students and staff of the Department of Anatomy can bring friends and family members into the museum, but students have to ask the Museum Curator for permission before they do this.
Among the myriad of University architecture, where the shiny surfaces of the new literally reflect the past, there is an abundance of quirks and history.
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Twice the fun with tortillas
M
ay has crept upon us and cooler weather is inevitable. This week, Ines Shennan explores vivid, tummy-pleasing flavour combinations to carry you through numerous assignments, caffeine hangovers and chilly Dunedin breezes. This easily-prepared finger food pays homage to Mexican fare, while the juicy steak is inspired by an Anthony Bourdain episode about the Texas Barbecue movement.
Juicy Steak and Lime Salsa Bundles
I
was always under the impression that
time are all significant factors in the process and
to enjoy a truly succulent, medium-rare,
I cannot stress enough the importance of resting
flash-in-the-pan steak, the only route to
the meat once you remove it from the heat –
success was via the pricey eye or scotch
leave it for 15 minutes. In the words of The
fillet. I was wrong. Both supermarket chains
Beatles, “let it be.” After this, you can slice it
carry “tenderised BBQ steak” in their chillers
into lengths, deep black on the outside and a
and I was initially sceptical as to whether MSG
lovely soft pink in the middle.
or some other unwanted intruder had somehow snuck into this tenderising process, or if this cut
The steak I’ve recommended is super cheap (the
was an offence to self-proclaimed steak lovers.
piece I selected cost an embarrassingly low
But, as long as you avoid any cuts that are
$2.70), but handles the high heat where other
slathered in suspicious-looking gelatinous
cheap cuts would not. By all means, splash out
brown sauce, or indeed sauce of any kind (don’t even get me started on the abomination that is apricot chicken), the treatment of the meat appears to be limited to its physical appearance. The steak had long indents running through it, which was ideal for this recipe. Similar to the pulled pork recipe of weeks gone by, the meat was treated to a similar black pepper crust. Be sure to thoroughly massage the pepper, salt and cumin into all of the indentations in the meat. The heat of the pan, minimal oil and cooking
“trust the power of the “tenderised BBQ steak.” I was wrong to consider it ominous and nasty – it actually lends itself perfectly to these bundles of deliciousness”
on an indulgent piece of $30/kg steak if you so wish, but trust the power of the “tenderised BBQ steak.” I was wrong to consider it ominous and nasty – it actually lends itself perfectly to these bundles of deliciousness, inspired by the Mexican restaurants in Auckland that serve up individual soft tacos in brightly-coloured bowls with heavenly combinations of ingredients that dance in your mouth. My favourite garnish is freshlytorn mint leaves. When you make this, go all out with the mint, don’t hold back on the lime and savour the spicy, soft steak.
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INGREDIENTS 250g piece of tenderised steak Cracked black pepper 1 tsp salt 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp rice bran oil, plus extra for cooking 2 tomatoes, diced 1/2 small red onion, very finely diced 3 spring onions, very finely sliced 1/2 lime – zest and juice
Method 1. Coat both sides of the steak with pepper until
3. Toss the tomatoes, red onion, spring onions,
completely black. Evenly massage in the salt
lime zest and lime juice together.
and cumin. Rub 1 tsp of the rice brain oil into the steak.
4. Once the steak has rested, carefully slice it into lengths.
2. Heat a large frying pan or girdle pan until smoking hot. Drop the steak into the pan and
5. Warm the tortillas in the microwave for 10
cook for two minutes on one side (add a very
seconds each, then roll into a cone. Pack with
small amount of oil if the pan smokes too much).
the salsa, top with a few strips of steak and pack
Turn the steak over and cook for a further two
into your hungry gob. These are handheld and
minutes, but no more. Remove from the heat
messy and a perfect way to finish a long,
and set aside to rest at room temperature for
relentless week.
10-15 minutes.
4 tortillas
Makes four mouthwatering bundles.
Chorizo Quesadillas
W
hether or not you have already picked up on this, I’ll take a moment to remind you of my complete and utter
obsession with chorizo. Up until recently, I was a devout ready-to-eat, smoked chorizo kinda gal. Those deep burgundy sticks of chorizo were firm and incredibly salty with glorious marbles of fat running through them. I’ve since had a change of heart – the plumper, softer, raw chorizo sausages have swept me away with their juicy glory (once cooked, of course). Admittedly, it was somewhat of an amateur move when I mistakenly purchased this terracotta beauty, similar in size to a saveloy. “Oh!” I thought. “All that extra time I would have to spend cooking it.” My first world problems soon dissolved when I reminded myself of the
the final stages of cooking to get the skin extra
INGREDIENTS 1 soft chorizo sausage 4 tortillas 2 spring onions, roughly sliced diagonally 1 cup grated cheese (edam, cheddar or mozzarella)
crispy. Slice into 1cm thick rounds on an angle. 2. Place a tortilla on a plate. Top half with some grated cheese and chorizo. Microwave for around 30 seconds until the cheese is mostly melted. Sprinkle with some spring onions. 3. Fold the other side of the tortilla over so you have a half-circle. Place in a preheated, very hot
ease of preparing quesadillas. They are quick
frying pan with no oil. Cook for 1 minute, flip
enough to whip up for lunch, but make an equally
over, and cook for a further minute. Slice in half.
tasty dinner. For extra nourishment, warm through a can of drained black beans with some
Method
chilli sauce and chopped coriander, then
4. Repeat for the remaining tortillas. Serve with a squeeze of lime and some roughly torn fresh
roughly mash. Serve your quesadillas with
1. Place the chorizo under the grill (or in a hot
mint. An ice-cold beer on the side wouldn’t go
the black bean mash and a generous blob of
frying pan with a little high-smoking point oil)
amiss, either.
homemade guacamole.
until cooked through and the skin is blistering and golden. You may like to turn the heat up in
Makes 16 quesadilla wedges.
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Get Out of the Ghetto:
Queenstown Edition By Brittany Mann Photos by Tristan Russell
W
hen Phoebe Harrop of “Get Out of the Ghetto” fame found herself unable to “research” this feature, she selflessly passed the torch on to me. Go to Queenstown for the weekend, I was instructed, and try out some of the fun stuff on offer. I was
forcefully reminded of how awesome this job is. Inexcusably, I had made it to my fifth year of university having never been to Queenstown before. I wanted another virgin to accompany me on my maiden voyage to central Otago, but my rudimentary inquiries as to the existence of such a person yielded no results. So I did the next best thing, and took two flatmates and a really expensive camera.
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Friday
Fergburger, 42 Shotover St.
On Friday, we set off in my trusty Nissan March.
We ventured across the road to Fergburger, that
The scenery was vaguely Martian at first but
bastion of culinary greatness of which I had
became increasingly beautiful, with all the fiery
heard countless friends speak in hushed tones
autumnal colours out in full force and the
of awed reverence. My astronomically high
turquoise Clutha River shimmering beneath the
expectations were, of course, met. It was 8:30pm,
setting sun. One German hitchhiker and about
but the place was still pretty packed. Barry at
clearly managed to maintain a very high
four hours’ drive later, we arrived. A twinkly
Fergburger had kindly arranged for Kim, a pretty
standard of service and fare without falling
winter wonderland suffused with tourists
English lass, to take care of us, and she proved
victim to its own colossal popularity and success.
and consumerism, Queenstown struck me, a
extremely friendly and attentive. After she took
The atmosphere was lively and positive, and the
Christchurch native, as the Merivale of the South
our orders (a Codfather for me, Cockadoodle
staff seemed to be enjoying their work. We left
(on steroids).
Oinks for the others, and chups), we managed
only too happy to nurse our new and prominent
to nab a seat.
Fergbaby bellies.
Base Backpackers, 47-49 Shotover St.
The burgers arrived in record time and delivered what they promised. Simple, fresh, quality
Two nights at Base in an eight-bed dorm with
ingredients perfectly cooked and enticingly
ensuite cost us each $30 (it seems to cheaper if
presented, I was impressed that Fergburger has
you book online, as we had). We left the car overnight in the Man St Carpark building, located in the street adjacent to Base, $10 for 12 hours (and a rip-off – we parked on the street the next day). The reception is manned around the clock and is attached to Altitude Bar, which was to be the first stop on our “Big Night Out” bar crawl on Saturday. Our room was clean, warm, and spacious, with a fridge and a balcony overlooking the main street, and we had it to ourselves for the first night before being invaded by incestuous, sex-crazed Brits on a “Kiwi Experience.”
“A twinkly winter wonderland suffused with tourists and consumerism, Queenstown struck me, a Christchurch native, as the Merivale of the South (on steroids).”
No. 5 Church Lane, 5 Church Ln. The next stop was No. 5 Church Lane, a five-star boutique hotel with a bar and restaurant attached. The bar has a fireplace at one end, a DJ at the other, and a chilled atmosphere that meant you’d feel at ease dressed up or down. The menu boasted 20 unique cocktails and punches and no classics (which can be made on request). The drinks featured exotic ingredients like apricot jam and homemade coconut icecream and were served in things like milkshake tins and ceramic ducks. I wanted to try them all. Hovering around the $14-$20 mark, you definitely get your 2+ standards’ worth – the cocktails were soul-warmingly strong (we had a Monk’s Sabbatical, a Thaipirinha and a Chignon
The bed was comfy and the linen crisp, although
between us). You could easily sit on one drink
the bunk structure itself was disconcertingly
for an hour, so it was nice not to guzzle it back
wobbly, giving one the precarious sensation of
and be left wanting another. While perhaps not
being at sea. The shower was one of those push-
the first place students would think to stop on a
button affairs (parsimony masquerading as
boozy weekend to Queenstown, No. 5 would be
environmental concern), and according to my
the perfect venue for a special occasion like a
flatmate, provided “the worst shower I’ve
birthday or grad, or just to start the night
ever had.”
off classily.
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Saturday Vudu Café, 23 Beach St. For brunch, we ventured down to Vudu Café, #3 on TripAdvisor for restaurants in Queenstown (Ferburger, of course, was #1). It was busy and the cabinet food was probably the best I’d ever seen anywhere. I ordered off the menu – freerange eggs with haloumi on Turkish bread with tomato, dukkah and rocket, and a rooibos chai for $21.50. The food was delicious – I’m going to try to recreate it at home – and while the portions
The Shotover Jet
weren’t massive, it was definitely enough to sustain me until dinnertime.
Gently Used Clothing, 75 Beach St.
Coyote Grill, 1/66 Shotover St.
Then it was off to the Shotover Jet. You can either drive yourself to the River Base building on Gorge
Given the tragic deficit of Mexican restaurants
Road, Arthurs Point, or take the free bus from
in Dunedin, I was keen to get amongst in
the information center on the corner of Shotover
Queenstown. Coyote Grill is tastefully decorated
Tucked away a few shops down is Gently Used
and Camp Streets, as we did (the drive takes
with South American wall hangings and the cool
Clothing, which sells one-off vintage and
about 10 minutes). Despite my best efforts not
Reggaeton playing over the sound system
designer pieces. It has less stock than Modern
to be uncool, I was a bit nervous (having
contributed to the feeling of authenticity, as did
Miss but is more reasonably priced – I bought a
flashbacks of white-water rafting on the Nile),
the fact that our babein’ waitress may well have
chiffon cardy for $35 and my flatmate bought a
but I needn’t have been: the
wool cape for $40. Cash only (but there’s an ATM
Shotover was a lesson in good,
next door), GUC is worth a visit if you’re after a
clean, non-scary fun from
Coyote Grill has an extensive
less conventional Queenstown memento. Just
beginning to end, all for the
drinks list showcasing a
beware the “fitting room” – the window looks
reasonable cost of $129.
pleasing juxtaposition of Central Otago wines and
directly onto the street.
Queenstown Botanic Gardens
actually been Mexican.
The Shotover Jet is adventure
Mexican beers and tequilas,
tourism for wimps like myself
a l on g
and my male flatmate (who
margaritas and sangria. You
wi th
th e
u su a l
squealed like a teenaged girl),
can order many of the items
After brunch, we meandered along the waterfront
and therefore a great outing for
on the menu entrée size, which
through the market (a disturbing number of
the whole family. You don a long
people flogging their wares seemed to have
raincoat thingy and a lifejacket, and are given a
salad; or main size, with two wraps, beans and
Otago degrees), past the freakishly talented
preliminary safety briefing before spending 30
rice. My flatmates ordered an entrée-sized duck
buskers, to the Queenstown Botanic Gardens,
minutes zooming up and down a narrow stretch
mole enchilada and a meal-sized chicken one,
where I spent a happy hour writing in the sun
of river at the bottom of a canyon at 90 km/h.
which they both thoroughly enjoyed.
looking out over the lake and the flatmates went
Our charming driver, Ian (another Otago
off frolicking with the camera. A lovely spot for
graduate) performed thrilling 360-degree
My seafood fajitas ($31) would turn out to be a
a picnic or a cheeky shag, I’m also told you can
pirouettes at a moment’s notice and I had lots
struggle to finish. Totally worth the price, my
play something called “Frisbee Golf” there –
of fun cackling madly at the thrill of Feeling
dish – calamari, prawns and fish marinated in
worth looking into.
So Alive.
Mexican herbs and spices – came out on a
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QUEENSTOWN
sizzling hot plate, accompanied by three flour
Made from 20 tons of hand-sculpted imported
tortillas as well as guacamole, salsa and
ice, adults can pay $32 for the entrance fee and
sour cream.
one cocktail or $42 for the entrance fee and two. You can do this online, or just bowl up.
Big Night Out Bar Crawl, begins at Altitude Bar, 49 Shotover St.
The bathroom was possibly the nicest I’ve ever had the good fortune to come across – sparkly
At reception, you put on a fur-trimmed jacket
Whilst it is not something I would ever (ever!)
clean with a huge mirror surrounded by faux
and gloves with grips on the palms, and then
have paid to go on myself, I tried to have an open
frangipani lights, and a Barbie and Ken stuck on
you head through to the bar. The room itself can
mind about this bar crawl. The deal is: you pay
the appropriate WC doors. Coyote Grill is therefore
fit 50 people and is available for hire for private
$25, go to five bars for about 45 minutes each,
worth a visit, at the very least, for a luxurious wee.
functions. It’s full of intricately carved solid ice
and get a “free” shot on the door and 30% off
statues and furniture, including a chandelier,
subsequent drinks bought at the bar. Food is
a fireplace, a carriage and numerous seats.
provided and there is a 10% on any subsequent
Ever-changing coloured lights offset the
food ordered, as well as 10% off Fat Badgers pizza.
sculptures beautifully.
Book online at bignightout.net.nz, and pay
Below Zero Ice Bar, Searle Ln. As soon as I was asked to write this feature, I
on arrival.
realised I was going to have to give up having
Upon entering, you order
given up drinking, bringing a recently-instated
a cocktail from the list of
teetotal policy to a premature end. Ah well. It
about 10 options (I got
doesn’t count if it’s for journalism.
a Blue Gondola which contained lychee and was
Given Queenstown’s nippiness, the thought of
delish). The drink is served
going out of my way to make myself even colder
in a glass made entirely
was unappealing. But Below Zero, the bigger of
from ice, which you are
the two ice bars in Queenstown, beckoned us.
instructed to hold with both hands at all times. Honestly, the novelty was almost overwhelming. People tend to only stay for about 30 minutes, but the Irish barman told me that an NZDF soldier who was training for a mission once stayed in there for three
“The drink is served in a glass made entirely from ice, which you are instructed to hold with both hands at all times. Honestly, the novelty was almost overwhelming.”
hours, and that he himself
We began at Altitude, where, alarmingly, Saturday night was “Fluoro Night.” Trying to fight back visions of my first-year self dancing maniacally at The Break wearing attire similar to that of the bar staff, Altitude struck me as the kind of bar at which it would be fun to end up “ironically” at the end of the night when you no longer care about the respect of your fellow man (à la Monkey Bar), but starting the night there was just mildly depressing. We milled about for an hour
did a nine-hour shift without a break on New
before traipsing to The Boiler Room, which was
Year’s Eve.
cosy, rustic and would have been a nice place to settle in for the night. Chico’s was similarly cosy
Below Zero often has GrabOne deals, so it’s
but self-described by the Irish barman (they’re
definitely accessible to the financially challenged,
everywhere) as a “restaurant for old people that
and totally worth a visit. Indeed, I have every
turns into a bar because it’s licensed till 3am.”
confidence that you could find a way to creatively
Winnie’s is a pizza restaurant that has a few
incorporate it into a Queenstown-based red card.
branches in Christchurch, but the Queenstown
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“I drove back to Dunedin feeling like Steve Carrel at the end of The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
branch is by far the nicest I’ve been to and was vaguely reminiscent of pre-earthquake Mexican
Sunday
Café in Christchurch, with an attic/loft-ish-type feel and a bar lit by Technicolor fairy lights. The Skybar has a ceiling painted like, well, the sky; ambient pink lighting; and a balcony overlooking the central green. Buffalo’s was a spacious
eggs and hollandaise sauce,” as well as a big breakfast accompanied by a “virgin Mary shot.”
Ivy and Lola’s Kitchen and Bar, 88 Beach St.
establishment with wooden panelling and floors, a big ol’ pool table and a hot tub by the entrance.
fish with traditional bubble and squeak, poached
I got the three-egg omelette with spinach, pumpkin, mozzarella, pine nuts and, somewhat ingeniously, rhubarb chutney. At $15.50, it was cheaper than Vudu and just as delicious, not to
The day dawned cold and rainy, and a thick fog
mention being roughly 100 times the size. Just
lay across the basin in which Queenstown is
a stone’s throw away from the lakefront, Ivy
Apart from The Boiler Room, none struck me as
situated. It was disappointing, because we had
and Lola’s was the perfect note on which to
somewhere I’d ever go again on purpose. Despite
a booking at the Skyline Gondola and luge. The
end the trip.
World Bar’s infamy, we didn’t check it out due
lack of visibility, combined with the fact that the
to not-in-the-moodness resulting from
world had morphed into a swimming pool, made
overexposure. Also, having heard from a local
us disinclined to go, so we went to Ivy and Lola’s
source that Rape Crisis’s Queenstown branch
for brunch instead.
Epilogue
gets at least one World Bar-related complaint
I drove back to Dunedin feeling like Steve Carrel
every week, I didn’t feel like spending the rest
at the end of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, having
of the night fending off sexual predators. There
waited so long to experience that which many
was already a line up both sets of stairs at 9:30,
my age take for granted. Sufficiently deflowered,
though, so apparently there were lots of people
I had finally encountered Queenstown in
who did. Maybe next time.
much of its glory and look forward to returning in the future.
The night went by in a blur and before I knew it I was back in the dorm, where I happily swapped
To those remaining three or so students at Otago
my Kate Sylvester dress for PJ pants and my
who haven’t been to Queenstown yet and who
flatmates proceeded to enthusiastically join in
would have inevitably gone regardless of my
an illegal drinking game with the Brits (at Base,
Ivy and Lola’s is rated #20 on TripAdvisor, and
having written this feature – lemme tell ya,
you can only drink until 9pm and only in the
I was attracted to it by its name. When we arrived
you’re going to love it.
kitchen, not in the dorm). I am not and have
we were some of the only customers there, but
never been a bar crawl kinda gal, but the people
by the time we left the place was filling up fast.
in our group seemed to be having a whale of a
The kitchen was open to the dining area, meaning
time; and for only $25, it’s a great deal. It would
we could see the chef preparing our meals, which
be a fun idea for a birthday weekend away –
was a nice touch.
shout your flatmate for their 21st – and a good
Thanks Critic would like to specially thank Barry and Kim at Fergburger, Chris at No. 5 Church Lane,
way to work your way through some of
I was impressed by the menu – it had all the usual
Nigel at Shotover Jet, Jonny at Below Zero Ice
Queenstown’s 150+ bars and restaurants.
breakfast suspects (my flatmates got eggs bene
Bar, Jay at Big Night Out and Skyline Gondola for
and pancakes), but also had things like “smoked
their generosity and hospitality.
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Love is Blind
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ritic’s infamous blind date column brings you weekly shutdowns, hilariously mismatched pairs, and the occasional hookup. Each week, we lure two singletons to Angus Restaurant / Moon Bar and ply them with alcohol and food (in that order), then wait for their reports to arrive in our inbox. if this sounds like you, email news@critic.co.nz or FB message us. But be warned – if you dine on the free food and dash without sending us a writeup, a Critic writer will write one under your name. And that won’t end well for you.
Girl
I
knew when my date didn’t want to stay to finish the bar tab that things hadn’t gone well – but I figured that, since I had endured well over an hour of his appalling chat and pointless conversation, I might
as well make the most of the free drinks and drown my sorrows.
Catelyn
W
hen you’re in New Zealand you often hear about the “two degrees” of separation. You can usually find a quick connection back to anyone you meet. This phenomenon was more evident
Friday night than any other. On Thursday, I got a last-minute call to see
He had told me repeatedly how much of a drinking expert he was
if I had time to fill in for someone who had bailed on their date. To a broke-as
throughout the date (another of his fascinating stories) so now was his
student like myself, I couldn’t have been happier – plus I’d have the chance
time to shine. He didn’t shine; in fact, the only thing shining was the floor,
to maybe meet a nice Kiwi girl.
at which I stared intently to avoid any eye contact and distract myself from
Sorry Critic readers, but Americans are more condensed down here than
the awkward silences. Don’t get me wrong, he seemed like a nice guy, but
I thought. While I had good chat on the date, I didn’t come halfway across
I was more after Vanilla Ice and he was leaning way too close to the vanilla
the world from the USA to chat up Americans. But hey, when we’ve already
side for my liking. Vanilla – a term in America for those individuals who
spent all our money on a plane ride and the undeniable urge to throw yourself
although may seem pleasant enough, make very little impact on your
off a bridge (with a bungee rope tied to your feet), you’ll defiantly be glad for
life and are forgotten almost instantly. What was I talking about again?
a yarn, a shouted good meal, and some drinks together.
Oh yes, my date …
We went over everything we knew about where we were from in the
I’m sure he’ll understand the term “vanilla,” being American himself,
States and told stories about some crazy grandparents, who are apparently
which instantly put him at a disadvantage, as I was looking for a Kiwi to
a more racist/sexist generation than we generally like to believe. I also
satisfy my American appetite for New Zealand meat. And I’m not talking
learned some serious lessons about economics being the force that influ-
about the lamb variety. Critic – if I wanted to meet an American, I would
enced British people to drive on the left side of the road because they
have stayed in America … common sense. Arseholes.
apparently have a subconscious need to be in correct jousting form (I’m
At least I enjoyed the food. My date, on the other hand, did not: he had
still trying to work that one out myself).
an allergic reaction half way through the meal. Not the sexiest thing I’ve
After dinner was finished, we had some extra funds left over to hit the
ever seen, though it may just have been his attempt to escape. Regardless,
bar. We asked the bartender for his favourite shot and that was probably the
I persevered, determined to make the most of the bar tab, and I feel like it
best call we made all night. Before now, I’d never seen five types of alcohol
was utilised enough to make the evening worthwhile. I drank enough to
and a banana go into a shot, but damn was it a good recipe. After roasting
send myself straight to sleep, anyway … or was that his boring conversation?
marshmallows on the bar and second shot, we walked back toward out flats.
Needless to say, no phone numbers or bodily fluids of any kind were
We said our goodbyes and I went to grab a pie from the Night N’ Day
exchanged. Not quite the night of rampant sex I was after, but never mind.
(never-ending hunger), and ended up running into some friends and had
I’m sure he’ll be the vanilla to someone’s pod one
a crazy night with duelling guitars and a lot of weed.
day – just not mine, unfortunately.
I would have invited her along if I had known where my night was going, but sometimes shit happens when you go with the flow.
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Awkwardness abounds
Aramoana
BY JAMIE BREEN and staff reporter
BY Phoebe HArrop
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shortage resulting in the emergency redirection of bundles of Dunedin’s
A
second-favourite rag, Critic expects the situation to be resolved swiftly
details of that particularly gruesome and
and for things to return to normal as soon as possible.
disturbing event, detailing the massacre of 13 Aramoana residents by
Anyway. This week in the ODT , fascinating and skilled journalism is
My advice? Watch the movie after you visit.
ritic had only one issue of the odt to work with this week. for some reason, our supply of papers has dried up somewhat in recent days. Perhaps the result of some kind of toilet paper
ramoana is more than just the site of New Zealand’s deadliest criminal shooting (how’s that
for a tempting opener?). If you’d like the
AN UNEMPLOYED GUN COLLECTOR in 1990, watch the movie Into the Blue. revealed: The thing is, if you see the movie first, you can’t help but think there’s something a wee bit creepy about Aramoana. And maybe there is. Even on the most beautiful bluebird day, there is a palpable air of unease around the overgrown cribs and oddly-named streets (Plucky Street for example, I mean what’s that about?). A description of a politician ruining a couple’s romantic dinner follows.
Push through the creepiness, though.
How unusual.
If you drive through the settlement, a tangle of low-lying buildings huddling
The ODT clearly doesn’t know what year it is:
behind the sand dunes in the shadow of the headland, you’ll find yourself in a most beautiful spot. To the north, gaze up the coastline to Seacliff (which, from a historical point of view, gives Aramoana a run for its money in the creepiness stakes). To the south, look across the narrow harbour entrance to the albatross colony – just a stone’s throw away. Watch out for seals (some cute, all smelly) and surfers (some cute, some smelly). If the tide permits, go for a stroll up the beach and past the rock
Clyde is probably going to need much more than a brochure to convince
with a romantic heart cut out of the
people to visit.
top. Just don’t loiter too long … enjoy. Get there: by car. Drive out along the Port Chalmers road – it’s about 25km from the Stadium. Do: walk along the massive breakwater out into the sea. Don’t: make any gun jokes. Eat: at Carey’s Bay Pub on the way
Another article of significant content, gumboot sales, gives a stellar pun.
out, or take a picnic.
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Hello, puny people
Marine Conservation
BY ELSIE STONE
BY Noel Jhinku
I
of sloths online. I watched one today that had baby sloths getting shaved,
T
lathered in butter and wrapped in pink bandages. At the end, the two baby
less than 10% of its mysterious depths and we provide it with almost 0%
sloths hugged. But the beauty of procrastination lies in more than just
protection. Let’s wave in marine conservation; it’s all about protecting this
slow-moving tropical mammals embracing: when we procrastinate, we
vast ocean and all the creatures that live in and around it. Just trawling
flirt with danger. It’s both rebellious and relaxing. It’s like eating an entire
the net, we can see there is some great stuff happening around the place.
have two assignments due tomorrow, so naturally I decided to write my column instead. Ha! Fuck you, university. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And the rest of us say FUCK OFF and watch videos
he oceans cover most of the Earth, so arguably it could be called Planet Ocean, right? It contains 99% of the living space on Earth, covers nearly 71% of the planet’s surface, provides about 50% of
our oxygen, and gives us 20% of the world’s protein. Yet we’ve explored
bag of Doritos and not regretting a single thing. For those of you who are too boring to discover such joys on your own, I have decided to list some
You can catch the Dunedin-based marine conservation group Our Seas, Our
of my best procrastination tips. You’re welcome.
Future (OSOF) making a difference one small step at a time. When you open up a can of OSOF, what you find is a group of passionate marine conservationists
Quizzes are really great. If you’re boring and smart, you can do the daily
making a difference at the grass-roots level. And rest assured, the contents
Stuff Quiz. If you are fantastic and awesome, you can do other quizzes.
of this can are not only dolphin-friendly but also sustainably caught.
Because there’s no point in knowing anything unless you know which Michael Jackson dance move you are. And what your spirit animal is.
OSOF is a part of a national campaign called the New Zealand Shark Alliance
And which Game of Thrones character you are. Online quizzes are also
working at saving our sharks. 98 countries have now banned shark finning
perfect for telling you if you are a good kisser and how long you would
and New Zealand is one of the few countries that still tolerate this brutal
last in a zombie apocalypse. Today, a quiz told me whether or not I could
practice. What is so good about shark fins? Apart from helping sharks go
date Justin Bieber (I couldn’t). And whether I will be successful (I won’t).
about their daily business, not much! They’re mostly used for texture in
Also my future home (a cave).
shark fin soup, and symbolise wealth, prestige and honour to some, while others think it will help them get lucky in the bedroom. With all these magical
Playlists are also great. If you are new to the whole procrastination thing,
properties, shark fins can fetch up to US$1000 per kg. Bad news for sharks.
playlist-creation is a particularly good tactic because it technically counts as study preparation. And it is so much fun that you will forget that you
OSOF is also encouraging people to use fewer plastic bags, because plastic is
were meant to be studying in the first place. Win-win!
both resource-hungry to manufacture and ends up in our oceans, choking marine life, starving baby birds and polluting the environment. A part of
I have a wonderful friend who likes to procrasti-bake. As in baked goods.
OSOF’s campaign is organising kick-arse coastal clean ups, removing
As in cake. This is a very good form of procrastination because it makes
man-made rubbish from coastal areas, while at the same time educating
nice smells and nice food and people will love you.
people about the effects of plastic on the environment.
Fuck it, go out on the town. You know you aren’t going to study anyway.
Speaking of plastic, you may have heard about the 19-year-old Dutch
If you’re going to procrastinate, why not get off the couch and go out and
student, Boyan Slat, who plans to remove more than seven million tons
do exciting things? It’s okay to be a lazy fuck. Just don’t lie to yourself
of plastic waste currently polluting the world’s oceans. Boyan designed
about it. It is an absolutely shit time of year because there are shitloads
the Ocean Cleanup Array, a device that will travel the ocean while filtering
of assignments, the crappy weather is setting in, and exams are looming.
out bits of plastic. He got the idea from a school paper he wrote looking
But don’t let that turn you boring. Instead, procrastinate! I procrastinated
at plastic particles found in the oceans. So help out the world and get
for five hours whilst writing this column about procrastination, and it was
studying science, beaches!
a blast. Try it. You know you want to. This column was written by Noel Jhinku of Our Seas, Our Future.
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Marbecks (Wall Street Mall) 4/5 COFFEE CUPS
BY M & G
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How To: Sexy Consent BY GLITTER GRRL
hit up the café in the corner, as M had a free coffee to redeem.
I
Marbecks is the perfect place for those lone rangers out there who need a
them uncomfortable. If a girl is comfortable with certain people touching her
break from study or their flat to grab a cup of joe in peace. They also have
butt, and you are not one of those people, then you’re gonna have to suck it up.
some pretty sweet food on display, with big piles of the brownies and
Gay guys can sometimes get away with this kind of behaviour because they
blondies for which they are well known. While M ordered a long black, G
lack the predatory air that this question (and those I have heard it from) effuses.
hile sauntering through the mall M and G were drawn to the eclectic hub of Marbecks in Wall Street. After perusing the jazzy selection of music and literature on offer, they decided to
t’s time to talk about personal boundaries, and how to navigate them. I promise, consent can be sexy!
Why is it okay for a gay guy to slap a girl’s butt, but not me? First of all, it’s not okay for anyone to slap anyone else’s butt if it makes
was inspecting the wall art, clad with posters of cult classics and band tee
Slapping butts without permission has been known to cause shock
shirts. Marbecks definitely has a cool factor, generated by the tasteful décor
and distress, and I’ve never seen it work as a pick-up move. Don’t make
that isn’t too in-your-face. There is always something new to discover,
someone uncomfortable just because you feel stripped of your right to
whether it be the upside down teacup lights they have over the counter
slap a butt. You don’t have that right. Slap your own butt.
or the enormous fripples on one of the paintings on the wall. So how do I go about kissing/sexing/butt-touching with consent, whilst M was very pleased with the customer service at Marbecks – the male
retaining an aura of sexy? It seems impossible!
barista was chatty and friendly, and demonstrated some excellent cof-
Far from it! I shall procede to describe just a few techniques you can use:
fee-crafting skills. M and G’s coffees came in cool art deco gold and white Supreme cups, topping off the funky décor. G’s only complaint was that
1. Expression of desire. Try saying “I want to [insert action here].” Whisper it,
the tables and chairs were kind of close together, making it hard to move
or make eyes. (Or not. I don’t know about you, but I tend to look murderous
around when the place is bustling with mums on coffee dates. Being able
when I’m trying to “smize.”) It informs the other person of your intentions,
to browse the latest novels and listen to some choons while you sip on
and gives them an opportunity to respond with what they want; if your
your mach is glorious.
desires match up, get in there!
M’s coffee had the perfect balance of flavour and smoothness; the Supreme
2. Invite. Tell them what you want them to do to you! Not only is this a
beans made for a lovely experience. He was happily sipping away while
cornerstone of “talkin’ dirrty,” it also takes away the need for asking
people-watching from the seats located outside the main shop. G is a fan
questions you may find awkward. “Slap my butt” is a pretty clear “yes” to
of sitting at the wooden benches by the window and watching the patrons
that particular action. Note: these are invitations, not orders.
of Maher try on the latest pair of eye-talian crocodile skin cunt-hunter shoes. You’d be surprised at who you spot in there.
3. Body language. This can be less clear, but probably happens the most often. Those of you trying to get your mack on in the bowels of Monkey may
The main broad who works there is also always up for a chat about their
find verbalising your desire to slap a person’s butt difficult over the shrill
perpetual stock of Keep Cups. Marbecks is a good place to buy into this
screams of “POUND THE ALARM.” Look into their eyes – are they smizing?
latest trend, with a huge collection of eco-cups on offer. They’ll help you
Touch their face/arm – do they move closer? Look at their lips – is there
find some pleasing colour combos, fill your cup with espresso and send
a smile? Then touch those lips with your lips! Once you’ve got that going
you on your way.
on, you can let their hands guide you to their butt. Or wherever. Also! It’s really important to remember that people’s comfort levels may change. A “yes” to butt-touching is not a “yes” to sex, and people could even change their minds and realise they don’t want any more butt-slaps. One “yes” does not equal forever “yes.”
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May 13 - 19
Talking shit
BY JESSICA BROMELL
BY DR. NICK
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his week, fixtures of the modern world are born, and a truly ambitious voyage is undertaken.
May 15, 1940: Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first fast-food
i everybody, This week, I want to talk about New Zealand’s Got Talent. Specifically, I want to talk about the odds that the show will actually
demonstrate that New Zealand has any talent: bloody shit.
restaurant, and probably had no idea that it would end up being such a
Despite the fact nobody talks about pooping, a study by Tarō Gomi
big deal. A few years later, the guy who sold them their milkshake machines
showed that everybody does it. Brick-laying might be a universal phe-
bought the restaurant out and started opening restaurants all over the
nomenon, but we still get flustered when forced to talk about it.
place, thus beginning the ascent of McDonald’s. (The same guy initially
There’s a question I’ve fielded numerous times, usually asked by small
refused to open a restaurant in New Zealand, because “I never met a
children and drunk people (two largely interchangeable groups): “What
more-dead-than-alive hole in my life”. Go figure.) McDonald’s is now the
is the funniest thing you’ve seen in med school?” People generally expect
single most advertised brand name in the world, due to its relentless
an answer involving a kitchen utensil and the words “I tripped...” but my
marketing – the golden arches and catchy slogans have made a significant
funniest memories come from those golden moments before general
impression. The McDonald’s franchise is also known for its willingness to
anaesthesia kicks in (“I’m a fucking awesome jockey. Zzzzz”) and the
adapt to what its customers want: in Germany, they sell beer.
vindictive glee one can get from asking “the poo questions.”
May 16, 1960: In one of the more visually entertaining triumphs of physics,
flatmates that you gallantly slayed the toilet after a night of curry and
Theodore Maiman won the race to operate the first optical laser, which
beer) but healthcare workers discuss poo a lot. You might even say we
was made with a synthetic ruby and produced light of a deep red colour.
discuss it … a shitload, if you were a douchey “puns-are-funny” twat. Point
As well as looking cool, lasers have contributed to a whole host of useful
being: a doctor can ask dozens of questions about your latest poo and
technology like barcode scanners, printers, and DVD players (that great
medically justify each and every agonising, chair-squirming, face-flushing
technological achievement of the early noughties). You can use them to
one of them.
Now, you probably don’t often discuss crap (beyond informing your
perform surgery, or any other sort of cutting your heart desires. Apparently,
Returning to NZGT – there’s something that causes huge amount of
the biggest disappointment of laser technology is that nobody has yet
worry in a huge amount of people: blood in the toilet bowl. There’s a
created a functioning lightsaber, but presumably there are safety issues
crap-ton of ways bum blood can look (mixed in with the poo, in the water,
that have to be considered. The physicists responsible for this probably
on the toilet paper, bright red, dark red, black, sticky, clumpy, runny ...)
wouldn’t like it if people started using the results of their hard work to
but probably the most terrifying is the bright red spray on white porcelain.
remove each other’s limbs.
People see that and they freak.
May 17, 1970: Thor Heyerdahl, one of the more ambitious explorers of
people fear they’ll face a douchey “puns-are-funny” twat of a medical
recent years – which might have had something to do with his being called
professional who will ask them dozens of awkward questions. Here’s the
Thor – set off from Morocco to sail across the Atlantic in a papyrus boat.
thing, though, the questions themselves aren’t actually embarrassing or
He was trying to demonstrate that ancient people could have done it,
entertaining – the only funny part is the squirming awkwardness that
which he managed on his second attempt by making it to Barbados.
some people exude when talking turds. Without that, it’s a very unre-
Heyerdahl had previously sailed from South America to Polynesia under
markable subject matter, as “the poo questions” are actually a very cruisey
similar conditions because he wanted to prove that Polynesia had been
set of yes/no tickboxes to make a diagnosis.
Often, that freak-out doesn’t translate into seeing a doctor, because
settled by South American people in pre-Columbian times, but most
Bloody poo is way more common than you’d think and, if you’re young
modern-day anthropologists think his theories were wrong. Heyerdahl
enough to read Critic, it’s incredibly unlikely to be the cancer or whatever
persistently ignored the linguistic, cultural and archaeological evidence
you’re freaking out about. But like everything, if you’re worried, it’s far
that contradicted his ideas, and carried on sailing his little boats. Such
better to see somebody about it than letting it driving you mad. Ultimately,
dedication is admirable, especially in light of experts who said that the
letting the fear of awkward questions impact your health is a shit idea.
evidence for such voyages could just as easily have been carried by birds.
And puns are funny.
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Saskia Leek’s Desk Collection DPAG | UNTIL 08 Sep 2013
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is a noticeable change in her style and painting formula (with a somewhat side-tracked venture into abstraction), underlying the whole exhibition
(a sculptured caravan and cabinet of beautiful
is an otherworldly and slightly dark tenor. It be-
soap sculptures) tie together seamlessly.
gins with Leek’s earlier popular culture-oriented works that elevated her to prominence as part of
askia Leek’s solo exhibition Desk
The layout of this exhibition was exceptional,
a group exhibition Hangover in 1995. These works
Collection at the Dunedin Public Art
guiding the visitor in the right direction, but
present a critique on contemporary culture that
Gallery is a true testament to her evo-
giving them the freedom to form their own in-
references the artist’s own teenage experiences
lution as an artist. Seeming to almost celebrate
terpretations. Combining quotes from the artist
and the American iconography she was influenced
Leek’s personal journey as an artist, the ex-
herself with considered observations, the writing
by, exemplified by a self-portrait of Leek as Sandra
hibition didn’t just present this to the viewer,
on the accompanying placards avoided convo-
Dee. With strong colours, witty commentary and
but swept them along for the ride through an
lution. The installation enhanced the beauty of
bold figures, these works reflect the extent to
extremely effective installation of her work.
the paintings, something that many galleries
which the artist’s painting style has developed.
Leek’s paintings are not outrageous, controver-
often, bafflingly, fail to do.
sial or aesthetically draw-dropping, but there is
Leek settles into a thoughtful and genuine style,
a serene surrealism to her small, intimate works
Recently shortlisted for the prestigious Walters
with most of her paintings containing relat-
that leaves a lasting impression.
Art Award, Saskia Leek has a prominent pres-
able subject matter like horses, houses, cats
ence in the New Zealand art scene. Admittedly,
and fruit. However, the success of her works is
The title Desk Collection refers to Leek’s having
her works initially failed to grab me. However,
their edgy, surrealist nature embodied in the
created every painting at a desk, alluding to the
suffused with intimacy and unimposing in their
environments in which she places these objects.
exhibition’s “timeline” structure and putting
scale, these paintings are designed to affect the
The penultimate painting depicts a gathering of
the paintings’ size into perspective – they are
viewer gradually. If one were simply to flick from
Victorian figures, seemingly lost in deep, green
unobtrusively small. Paintings of this scale run
one painting to another, their subtle grittiness
bush. Vaguely sinister, you wonder why they are
the risk of being swamped with expanses of
would go unnoticed. A reasonable amount of time
there, why some figures are distorted, and just
white wall, but any sense of intimidation was
is required to discern these paintings’ beauty, and
how that one little man ended up in a clearing
offset by the installation itself: the paintings
understand why Leek deserves the title of “success
all by himself? From a technical point of view,
were placed at eye level on partitioning walls
story” to which this exhibition pays homage.
the works are deceptive. Seemingly simple, there
creating intimate, enclosed spaces, much like
is a lot the paintings provide the viewer beyond
those depicted in the works themselves. As a
The opening wall describes Leek’s works as a
the first glance, offering the viewer not just a
result, the paintings and works of other media
shift “from junk shop to old master.” While there
scene, but a story.
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BOOKS
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Reviewed by David McKenzie
“Alongside these societal allegories runs a more introspective exploration of Hans as an individual, mostly played out through his seemingly futile fascination with, and courtship of, Claudia Chauchat, the closest thing to a love interest in the novel.”
T
homas Mann’s production of such an
conflict, the rise of totalitarianism; it’s all in
intricate, thought-provoking work as
there. Alongside these societal allegories runs
The Magic Mountain is a monumental
a more introspective exploration of Hans as
achievement matched only by that of the casual
an individual, mostly played out through his
reader actually managing to finish it. You not
seemingly futile fascination with, and courtship
only need time to get through its 700 pages, but
of, Claudia Chauchat, the closest thing to a love
also a large amount of mental energy.
interest in the novel. However, for most of the novel, Hans is as much a spectator as the reader,
Those looking for an easy read or a dramatic
observing lengthy discussions by stronger
page-turner should give this book a wide berth.
characters –an Italian and a Jew – which make
The actual plot is very straightforward and the
it hard for the reader to feel involved in the action.
action mundane. Hans Castorp, a young German of a prosperous merchant family, is about to
Stylistically, Mann manages to maintain a
begin a ship-building career in Hamburg. He
dark, ominous tone throughout the novel,
goes on a trip to the Swiss alps to visit his cousin,
which is the most likely thing to keep a reader
Joachim, who is living in a sanatorium in the
engrossed. One interesting motif is medicine,
mountains to treat his tuberculosis. Hans intends
with descriptions of things even as abstract as
to stay for two weeks, but ends up extending this
human emotion often broken down to a scientific
after falling ill himself, staying there for seven
level, making the reader feel as if they, too, are
years. He eats lots of meals. He goes skiing. He
in a medical institution.
has a dream. He talks to people. Ultimately, he leaves to fight in the First World War. And that,
The Magic Mountain gives up artistic and
friends, is basically it.
aesthetic enjoyment to philosophical thought and contemplation. Technically, this is a very, very good book. But I hesitate to recommend it
someone in the advanced stages of a personal
ideas, which are primarily developed through a
to just anybody. Someone wondering when their
spiritual crisis, could find great satisfaction in
series of discussions and debates involving Hans’
knowledge of Greek mythology would be put into
this book. If you are not one of these people, then
fellows at the sanatorium, who form something of
practice, or history lovers wanting a first-hand
start with Death in Venice and see whether you
a microcosm of the socio-political environment
illustration of that ferocious melting pot of ideas
or not you and Thomas Mann get along before
of interwar Europe – Freudian impulses, class
bubbling away in a war-ravaged Europe, or even
committing yourself to this mammoth work.
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BAZ MACDONALD | gaming@critic.co.nz
Interview with Tim Nixon I recently got the opportunity to interview the game director at Runaway Play, Tim Nixon, about Flutter.
What is the game Flutter to you?
species. It just felt like the basis for a really great world and really great fiction. My imagination
When we initially set out to form a studio which
sort of got captured by that.
was about making games inspired by nature, we looked at all the species and environments
How much research was put into the game?
around the world that was just naturally, on its own, an incredible story. The idea was that
Quite a lot, especially thinking about, and having
we could find these stories which would make
to find, all the different species. At the moment,
great gameplay mechanics, and so we looked
we’ve got over 60 species, not all that are live
at butterflies, which are intrinsically beautiful
at the moment, that we have researched out,
creatures and have this really interesting story
developed facts for and done the designs for.
behind their life cycle.
We did research into the life cycles and tried to find permutations of different species that
Each individual species, as well, has these really
were interesting and told a cool story. There’s
interesting eccentricities. Various different cat-
definitely solid research behind it to make sure
erpillars have symbiotic relationships with ants
that it is factually sound.
where they look after each other and, different butterflies have very different temperaments
What’s the target audience and demographic?
and life spans. There are so many of them to base it on.
It definitely leans towards girls – it’s 80 per cent played by females. The thing is, though, that
So we were looking to make a nurture game,
there is definitely the depth and complexity in
something where someone could collect and
there to attract guys to it. It’s an interesting game,
not only play it for entertainment’s sake but also
with problems to solve and sets to collect. We’re
to be just as compelling to collect butterflies as
pick us some cool facts and knowledge about the
looking at how we can make it more inclusive
it is to raise dragons in Dragonvale. That’s our
natural world. So butterflies just fit.
to all genders. Usually when people say “gender
real competition.
inclusive,” they mean the other way around, The other thing is, that nobody had done it
with trying to get the girls in, but we have the
The thing is, it is very important for our differ-
before. So, our brief to ourselves at the start
opposite problem and we have some ideas on
entiator to have substance. We have people now
was to make a nurture game that was based on
how we might do that. Age-wise, our average
posting photos of our in game butterflies beside
butterflies and their incredible life cycles, some-
player is in their mid-twenties, but we have a
real life butterflies and saying, “You should make
thing that you could pull out of your pocket any
ton of players that are in school. So anywhere
this little adjustment to the wing pattern because
time which would be 30 seconds of happiness in
from 13 to 40 or 50.
it’s not exactly right.” People really get into it and
your day. That was the initial brief for the game. Where did the inspiration for Flutter come from?
they really appreciate that we have put the effort What was your approach to making the game
into researching it well and have the right facts
both a learning and an entertainment experience?
backing up the species. Especially parents love that it is inspiring their kids to care about nature.
Was there any inspiration drawn from Otago Museums butterfly exhibit?
We took the same approach that the television side of NHNZ takes, which is that the work we do
What’s in the future for Runaway Play?
That was more of a happy coincidence, actual-
is primarily entertainment. It needs to be able
ly. It certainly helped because we had a dozen
to compete with the likes of Shortland Street or
To continue to build on our expertise in this niche
short-listed concepts and the availability of
Game of Thrones, or whatever. The differentiator
of making games inspired by nature, we want to
many real life species close by really bumped
of our stories is that ours are real. They come
be the number one studio in the world in that field.
Flutter up the list. The thing that really got me
from the real world, so when you pick them up
We are in the rainforest now with Flutter, but who
jazzed about focusing on butterflies was all the
you might learn something along the way. Like
knows what other environments and creatures
stories that I unearthed – the depth and the
when someone turns on the discovery channel
we might play with in the future? We are really
complexity and the craziness of some of the be-
instead of a drama series. So first and foremost
excited with the traction we have with Flutter
haviour and background story to these different
the core loop of the game needs to be fun, it needs
and we’re just going to continue to build on that.
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complex features as you progress through it.
Flutter: Butterfly Sanctuary (free)
Eventually, you must clear away sections of
DevelopeR: Runaway Play | PUBLISHER: MOBAGE PLATFORMS: iPhone, iPad, iPod touch
by your butterflies. A levelling system allows
8/10
leaves to expand your forest and butterfly collection, which requires that honeydew generated you to upgrade your butterflies dew production, enabling you to clear your forest faster.
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he gaming industry as a whole has
are both informative and fun. Their latest game,
There is a huge variety of different species of
grown incredibly quickly. But no other
Flutter, exemplifies why the mobile industry is
butterflies to collect, which are organised in sets
branch of gaming has seen more expo-
as strong as it is.
by which country they are from. Rewards and
nential growth than mobile gaming. It seems like
a personal sense of accomplishment encour-
a blink of an eye ago I was being enthralled by
Flutter is a game in which you attract, care for
age you to complete these sets. To make this
Snake on my dad’s Nokia (which was the size
and collect butterflies – a simple premise which
possible, you can influence the kind of egg the
and weight of a brick), and now I can play games
contains a rich, fulfilling and informative experi-
incubator produces by collecting flowers which
on a smartphone that can often stand toe-to-toe
ence. Set in a vibrant and colourful section of the
might, for example, give you a 50 per cent chance
with console titles. Credit where credit’s due to
rainforest, you begin the game with just a few
of producing a rare egg. For those of you who
the technology that made this possible, but the
branches and what looks like an egg incubator
have played games like Dragonvale and been
growth of this particular industry is a testament
made from the trees, which you use to attract
frustrated by the random species generation, this
to the innovation and creativity of the game
your first butterfly egg. The incubator randomly
feature is great because it offers the player more
developers who have embraced and rapidly
generates an egg based on three criteria: region
control as well as challenging them to be creative.
evolved this medium. Every day, new mobile
of origin, size of butterfly and rarity.
games are being released, not only changing
The game is free to download and, like many
the way that we see and use our cell phones and
After waiting for an allotted time, your egg will
mobile games, offers the opportunity for gamers
tablets, but the way we see gaming in general.
then hatch into a caterpillar. It is your responsi-
to make micro transactions within the game for
bility to feed these ridiculously cute caterpillars
additional content or perks.
Just past the Exchange right here in Dunedin is
leaves so that they can grow into butterflies. Once
a beautiful building emblazoned with the letters
well fed, the caterpillars form cocoons from which
This is by far one of the most addictive mobile
“NZHS.” This acronym stands for Natural History
eventually burst forth brilliant butterflies that fly
games I have ever played and it makes me so
New Zealand. This building houses some of the
around your rainforest generating honeydew,
proud to see such a high quality game coming
most creative and accomplished work being
which acts as a currency in the game.
not just from my country, but from the city in
produced in New Zealand, including a games
which I reside. My recommendation: play it for a
studio called Runaway Play. Runaway Play seeks
These are the basic mechanics of the game but,
week, then go to the butterfly exhibit at the Otago
to make mobile games inspired by nature that
as all good games should, it introduces more
Museum and see how much you’ve learned.
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sam M cchesne y | f i l m @ c r i t i c . c o . n z Into Darkness is a well-conceived and slickly produced but ultimately uneven film. You know there’s something wrong when Leonard Nimoy out-acts most of your cast in a 45-second cameo. Karl Urban in particular gives one of the worst acting performances I have ever seen, delivering every line like a fifteen-year-old taking the piss (although the script does him no favours – “You’re putting him in a high-stakes poker game with no chips and asking him to bluff!”; “Damn it, man, I’m only a doctor!”, etc). Female characters are also an obvious and sadly predictable weakness, portrayed as emotionally-driven pieces of meat and subject to innumerable gratuitous leg shots.
Star Trek Into Darkness
Despite the general incompetence of those a mystery to me; I watched my first Star Trek
around him, though, Benedict Cumberbatch gives
film only last week (the 2009 reboot), and I
a masterclass. His strange, angular handsome-
kind of saw the point, but it was a bit baffling
ness, surprising physicality, and overall quality
all the same.
of menace make him a magnificent and utterly compelling villain. Perhaps too compelling: I
Director: J. J. Abrams Reviewed by Sam McChesney
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2.5/5
Star Trek Into Darkness picks up more or less
spent much of the film wishing he would stick
where the last film left off, with Captain Kirk (Chris
around long enough to finish off Bones, Scotty,
Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) exploring the
Chekov and the rest of the Enterprise’s infuriat-
galaxy on the USS Enterprise and and engaging
ingly hammy crew.
arrived at the midnight premier for Star
in various special-effects-laden adventures.
Trek Into Darkness, two equally bewildered
Before long they are called on to track down John
On the whole, Star Trek Into Darkness is an en-
friends in tow, to encounter a menagerie of
Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), a “terrorist” (all
tertaining and worthwhile film, but J. J. Abrams
costumed oddities standing in the Rialto foy-
action villains are “terrorists” these days) who
needs to do better when he takes on Star Wars.
er. Trekkies have always been something of
has declared a one-man war against Starfleet.
That’s the one I really care about.
retrofitted 3D is genuinely dazzling, adding a
whole dinosaur-theme-park-slash-petting-
depth, richness and clarity that does nothing
zoo-gone-horribly-wrong thing. Never did I
but complement the original film.
realise just how often the film addresses the ideas of sexism, evolution, God, and chaos, or
Jurassic Park 3D
how well the film is separated into two fairly
and thus has more impact, from the gory dino-
distinct halves, the first looking at the concept
saur-related deaths to the ripples of movement
of man attempting to play God as wondrous and
in the undergrowth, even to the subtle expression
groundbreaking, the latter demonstrating it to
changes on the faces of our protagonists (a smile
be arrogant and disastrous.
or an eyebrow raise suddenly seems doubly significant). So yeah, the 3D was dope.
You end up both loving and despising Jurassic Park’s mastermind John Hammond (inciden-
The film itself I hadn’t actually seen in about a
tally played by David Attenborough’s brother,
decade, so my memory of the characters and
Richard), simultaneously sharing his love for the
plot was hazy. I remembered a handful of iconic
wonders of science and loathing his pomposity
scenes, such as the T. rex flipping the car with the
that he could ever possibly conquer or control
kids inside, the same kids being hunted by the
nature. As Jeff Goldblum’s irresistible character
s you may or may not have heard,
velociraptors in the kitchen, and the girl getting
quips, “life finds a way.”
Steven Spielberg’s seminal Jurassic
sneezed on by a brontosaurus.
Director: Steven Spielberg Reviewed by Basti Menkes
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Everything on the screen is sharper and warmer
5/5
Park was recently rereleased in theatres
Twenty years since its initial release, Jurassic
in 3D to celebrate the film’s 20th anniversary.
Christ, I must’ve really had it in for those kids
Park remains as thrilling, amusing and awe-in-
Though many films that were shot in 2D and
as a younger person … anyway, the intricacies
spiring as ever, reminding us that Steven
later converted into 3D look like shit (Clash Of The
of the plot were essentially new to me, as were
Spielberg is and always will be the king of
Titans being the classic example), Jurassic Park’s
the many profound themes worked into the
blockbuster cinema.
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Patrick Bateman is the consummate Wall Street
American Psycho (2000)
yuppie, whose vacuous daily routine consists of grooming clients, interns and himself. His only interests are restaurants, his figure, and, in an assertion that falls on his insipid colleague’s deaf ears, “dissecting girls.” Bale, in a part that he claims was inspired by Tom Cruise, is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying, sinister and
Director: Mary Harron
pathetic. He is perfectly cast as someone whose good looks cross into being just plain creepy;
Reviewed by Jonny Mahon-Heap
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and age-appropriate, given the majority of serial killers are statistically white males in their 30s.
he story behind American Psycho’s
Bale’s manic intensity in American Psycho is
adaptation from page to screen is almost
so perfect that the film ultimately launched his
as troubled and manic as the titular char-
career, when most thought it would have ended it.
acter. Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ seminal work on the moral and materialist woes of 1980s Wall
Despite the sadistic violence, Harron’s comedic
Street America, the work was initially labelled
tone is as consistent as Bateman’s unhinged
“misogynistic garbage” and “snuff” by the New
smile, the laughs increasing with the body count.
York Times. Publishing mammoth Simon &
The easy combination of comedy and horror is
Schuster reneged on their obligation to print the
probably best exemplified by his Huey Lewis
should dismiss such concerns. As that rare suc-
book due to its controversial, uncompromising
monologue, delivered to an oblivious corporate
cess, a “horror-comedy,” it explores the dangers
subject matter. When Ellis finally found a home
victim, axe-in-hand (it has over half a million
of rampant vanity and competitiveness within
for the novel, he received numerous death threats
views on YouTube). Upon release, American cen-
the corporate environment. The late Roger Ebert
from rampant feminists on its release (oh the iro-
sors found not Bateman’s graphic mutilation of
encapsulated this best: “Most men are not chain-
ny). Mary Harron’s 2000 adaptation, enhancing
women to be offensive, but rather the sex scenes
saw killers; they only act that way while doing
the satirical elements of the novel, is that rare
– only by cutting 18 seconds of the latter did the
business. ... Their sexual insecurity is manifested
page-to-film adaptation, succeeding where the
film achieve an R16 rating. This decision in itself is
as business card envy.” Ultimately, though, the
novel failed. Its female director summarily dis-
more misogynistic than any of the film’s content.
film is not about understanding Bateman or
missed the misogyny claims as erroneous, and
drawing comparisons between 80s materialism
employed an A-list cast to portray the hedonism
If all this merely makes American Psycho sound
and sadistic violence. Rather, one enjoys the
of Reagan’s America.
like a pretentious horror film, then a viewing
performance while also revolting at the spectacle.
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he Company You Keep, directed by Robert
Tucci is the standout, along with LeBeouf, as the
Redford, was based on a novel of the same
editor of an Albany newspaper struggling to pay
name, and a novel it should have stayed.
its bills. Equally, Julie Christie’s short stint as a
The story revolves around Jim Grant (Redford) a
fiery anti-establishmentarian bucks the trend
former Weather Underground militant, who
of the older actors turning to grey blobs. Yet
becomes a wanted fugitive after his identity is
none of these performances is enough to free
exposed by a journalist (Shia LaBeouf) who is
this film from the shackles of its mediocrity, and
reporting on another Weather Underground
only served to remind me how easily talented
member’s (Susan Sarandon) confession to being
people get dragged down with rubbish writing.
part of a bank robbery gone wrong decades
Nothing was more indicative of this than Brendan
earlier. The setup had potential, but the film
Gleeson’s part as a retired detective.
failed to ever really get going. The screenplay, written by Lem Dobbs, suffers
The Company You Keep Director: Robert Redford Reviewed by Lyle Skipsey
3/5
In the spirit of fairness, I was willing to suspend
from the symptoms of most book-to-movie
disbelief that the 70-year-old Redford could have
adaptations. It lacks character development,
a young daughter, but the effort it took to do so
nuance and a satisfactory ending. I felt like I
almost instantly spoiled the movie. The expe-
didn’t care for a single character, apart from
rienced cast do an okay job of portraying people
LeBeouf’s, purely because there was no time to
whose youthful convictions have withered with
get to know what makes them tick. If anti-Viet-
age, but any chance The Company You Keep
nam War activism is your thing, my advice is to
had of being an adequate thriller is diluted by a
go read the book.
pathetic and largely predictable ending. Stanley
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Pietra Brettkelly director of Maori Boy Genius BY Jonny Mahon-Heap
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person and what is surrounding them and that something is going to happen. … Thankfully, I haven’t made a documentary that hasn’t had some kind of beginning, middle and end – that would just be a disaster. Depiction of Maori culture in our cinema has evolved over the years, from the heavy-handed-
aori Boy Genius examines a year in
ness of Once Were Warriors to the lighter touch
the life of 16-year-old Maori boy
of Boy – how do you think it has changed? What
wonder, Ngā Raūira Pumanawawhiti,
do you think, if anything, needed to change?
an adolescent, Yale student and future Prime Minister. The film’s director, Pietra Brettkelly,
I think there’s been a bigger picture happen,
discusses Ngā Raūira’s life pathway, the gam-
in that Maori are telling their own stories and
ble of documentary filmmaking, and the racial
they are also a much bigger part of our industry.
politics in his story.
And that’s been the combination of a bunch of things – the film commission making a considered effort to have more Maori filmmakers
How did you discover this unique story? resonates for many people – not just indigenous
and Maori stories … Also Maori Television has,
I wanted to follow up on this story my friend
people, not just Maori – it resonates for anyone
of course, given a presence to Maori media and
found about Ngā Raūira in the local Hawkes Bay
who is trying to go beyond what the statistics
broadcasters and filmmakers.
newspaper, and knew there was something in-
tell them they could achieve, whether it’s gender,
teresting about this boy. We flew down to Hawkes
ability, culture, race, geography.
But having said that, I’ve come up against some degree of challenge that I shouldn’t be telling this
Bay to initially meet him and his dad … I met this remarkable, confident, very charismatic young
Has the process of getting the film from televi-
story, that a Pakeha person shouldn’t be telling
man, and wanted to make sure that he wanted all
sion to cinema been a difficult one?
this story. But you know, there’s always that debate as well. I just think that hopefully New
these things. He had fabulous pressure on him from his iwi and his hapu and his whanau, but he
Absolutely, because I’ve had to fund it all myself
Zealanders, all of us, are becoming more aware
had to want this education and this pathway as
as a feature film. I went to Denmark to do the edit;
of the complexities of our own society, and want
well, because I’m not really interested in doing a
I work-shopped it overseas and really made it
to see and hear and be educated more about all
film on helicopter parenting, with parents living
into an international film. It was released at the
of these issues that make up our country.
through their children. I wanted to do a story on
Berlin Film Festival last year, and to be selected
a young man finding himself and his political
for that festival, which is one of the top five in the
The film is entitled Maori Boy Genius: Volume
voice – and Ngā Raūira did want this, did want
world, is a huge acknowledgement.
One – what do you envisage for the second
all these things.
half of this film? Your website references the Documentaries require a delicate balance be-
7Up documentary series, do you think that is
Why do you think this story is such an important
tween letting the story tell itself, and giving
an approach you would be interested in taking
one to be told?
the film structure – what are the challenges
with Ngā Raūira?
involved in this? I don’t know, really. I think the reason why I
Because he breaks through some of the worst statistics in the world. When young Maori men
The main challenges are having confidence that
called it Volume One was just to hint at the fact
leave school, over 50% have no qualification at
a story will evolve. With documentary, it’s kind
that this is just the start and there is so much
all. They make up over 40% of our prison pop-
of a wing and a prayer really, and the prayer is
more to come. Whether I document it or not, I’m
ulation. There are high incidences of suicides.
that something will happen, because we can’t
not sure. We’re still in contact a lot and now that
It’s a terrible realm of statistics, and for him to
just make it happen. So the more that I’ve been
I’m travelling the country, he’s trying to come
break through all them is extraordinary in itself.
in the industry and been making films (which
to some screenings and he’s terribly supportive
… That’s why it’s done so well internationally, I
has been for 16 years now) I know I can trust my
of the film, but I think I should leave him alone
think – because it resonates on so many levels. It
gut. I can read the situation and understand the
for a little while.
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Maori Boy Genius Director: Pietra Brettkelly Reviewed by Jonny Mahon-Heap
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3/5
ocumentaries often struggle to find the delicate balance between good storytelling and mere exploitation – a
challenge made all the more difficult when the subject-matter revolves around children. Such is the difficulty faced by Maori Boy Genius, a competent, intelligent examination of Ngaa Rauuira, the titular 18-year-old boy wonder, who finds his path to wisdom marred by politics, poverty and puberty. Brettkelly’s conscientious approach to Ngaa Rauuira, as she naturally tracks his rise from completing his first degree at age 13, to enrolling
on this boy’s shoulders is palpable (thrust upon
screen, but Brettkelly’s natural documentary
at Yale at 15, means the film never venerates or
him since the significant appearance of a “double
style lets the story tell itself.
worships its subject (despite the title implying
rainbow” at his birth), and it is testament to Ngaa
otherwise). Instead, it is the “supporting cast”
Rauuira’s considerable charisma and maturity
The film’s title is evidently something of a hy-
that proves more worrisome – parents willing to
that he carries the film without ever coming
perbole – the director herself confesses that the
max out credit cards for $45,000 in school fees, an
across as precocious or pretentious. Indeed, at
term “genius” is something of a misnomer. But
iwi with a political agenda – with many seeming
the risk of sounding woefully PC, it’s refreshing
in terms of what Ngaa Rauuira could, or will,
eager to simply exploit his talents.
to see a New Zealand film approaching a Maori
represent to his community, it is entirely accurate.
subject without any agenda. Whether it’s the
And it’s Brettkelly’s examination of these heavy
Brettkelly sheds light on the ambitions not only
heavy-handedness of Once Were Warriors, or the
expectations, whether held by his iwi, his friends,
of the prodigal son, but of his elders and impov-
satire of Boy, subtlety has never been our strong
or the film’s audience itself, which makes the
erished community. The weight of expectation
suit when depicting indigenous issues on the big
film worthwhile.
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1.5/5
ahuna Breaks have taken their time with this one. Their newest album, Shadow Light, has been five years in the
making, and Tahuna Breaks seem to be mighty proud of it. They themselves describe it as being “bigger, darker and heavier” than their earlier releases – if you define “darker” as meaning “more funky” then that’d be pretty accurate, but I don’t think most people do. The album starts off with a fairly standard 14-second intro before dropping into danceable but unremarkable track “Lady,” which runs for almost six minutes for no apparent reason. The next track “Smooth” is almost identical, but only four minutes in length. This cycle continues for the remainder of the album, with the same song essentially varying slightly in length repeatedly, only deviating on the power ballads “Brand New” and “Fearless.”
Personally, I’d rather they’d had a few more
is more standard dance-funk. In fact, they seem
raging arguments to shake up the terrain a little
to have abandoned their roots in roots (a change
I don’t mean to be a cynical hipster, as the turn-
more. Even on the first listen, my index finger
I wasn’t rooting for – sorry), seemingly cater-
ups on my jeans might suggest. The tracks are
was hovering over the skip button just to check
ing for the drunk and bored demographic on a
danceable and likeable if you’re not looking for
if the songs really were all like that (spoiler: they
standard Saturday night. It doesn’t suit them.
a challenge. But I get the impression that the
were). Two of them are actually remixes of songs
fairly extreme seven-man lineup the band has
already on the album, which is cheating, really.
adopted led to a proportional dilution of their
I don’t want to scare you away – there may be some of you out there whose lives would
vision. Seven guys arguing about how the music
The genre my iTunes came up with was “reggae,”
be changed by listening to this album. But if
should sound is only really going to lead to a very
and I’ve heard them referred to as “roots,” but
that is you, I’d recommend reassessing your
safe compromise, of which this music seems to
that’s really more appropriate for their earlier
life, because you really mustn’t do much in
be the result.
music than the direction of Shadow Light, which
your free time.
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This week Critic is proud to be giving away a copy of Bankrupt!, the brand new record from French indie rockers Phoenix. Their fifth studio album, Bankrupt! is being declared by music critics to be “as meticulous, likeable and danceable as its predecessors” and even “more cohesive” than the band’s best-selling last album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. To enter in the draw, simply “like” the image of the album cover that will posted on the Critic – Te Arohi Facebook page on Monday 13 May. The winner will be randomly selected from the people who liked the image at 8pm on Wednesday 15 May and announced on our Facebook page. Keep your eyes peeled for a review of the album in a future issue of Critic.
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Mali Mali
Gather ’round the Gooseclock Despite a lack of diversity or adventure, Mali Mali has produced an impressive debut.
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ali Mali is a North Shore trio fronted by singer-songwriter Ben Tolich. Drawing influence from artists such as The National, Sigur Rós and Bon Iver, Tolich writes acoustic, vaguely folky
music with a knack for sentimentality and atmosphere. Gather ’round the Gooseclock, Mali Mali’s debut album, is by no means groundbreaking or
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innovative, and truthfully, it never really tries to be. Tolich aims for a more ambient, eclectic incarnation of the style of acoustic music made in New Zealand over the last couple of decades, and he succeeds. Gather ’round the Gooseclock opens with “Pages,” which, after a number of listens, is probably my favourite track. A stuttering lo-fi beat lays the foundations for a series of slow, melancholy piano chords, soon complimented by acoustic guitar, violin and Tolich’s pleasant but undistinguished voice. His lyrics don’t seem to say much in particular, simply painting a series of pretty panoramic pictures, all trees and birds and slow-moving rivers. The second track and lead single “Song For The Sun” veers a little close to that Don McGlashan kind of saccharine softness, but is saved by a genuinely beautiful falsetto chorus that is likely Gooseclock’s finest moment melodically. The differences between the following seven songs are slight, generally distinguished by an instrument (such as the pattering brushes of “All The Sky Will Congregate” or the gossamer synth that whispers in the background of “Bury”). The only real exception is “Magnetic North,” the complex beat of which wouldn’t sound out of place on Massive Attack’s first album Blue Lines. For the most part, Gooseclock is 35 minutes of predictable yet perfectly lovely acoustic music that, due to its sleepy nature and lack of drastic variation, ultimately becomes a pleasant blur. From this promising start, Mali Mali can either jettison the glints of experimentalism and evolve into yet another that-song-from-the-NZ-Post-ad band, or bring a few more exotic elements into their sound and become one of New Zealand’s finest contemporary bands. Let’s thumb them up on Facebook, do our best to head along to one of their shows, and hope for the latter.
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LETTERS blankly stated them to contain riveting coverage
fuckery and that I should move. Here’s the point
of politics and some sort of rebuilding (typical).
where I say something about the ridiculousness
Next came the single feature, roughly 10 pages
of me borrowing excessive amounts of money
of obscure art photography. A couple of pages
to study at Otago Uni, not to fund the addictions
of ads and that was it. Where were the laughs?!
of sweaty adolescent gamers.
I was later told that the letters to the editor
Letter of the week
are usually the comedic highlight of Canter, ie the funniest part of the magazine is not actually written by the magazine. Fail.
The letter of the week wins Red Hot – A cook’s encyclopedia of Fire and Spice from the University Book Shop.
Aren’t you meant to be hanging off a tree somewhere?
Why pick on Salient when you can shit on Canter?
Okay then … Dear critic,
Rant over. [Ed – abridged]
He just wants to shit in peace. Dear Critic, I want to congratulate Callum Fredric on his feature ‘My Summer in Corporate Purgatory’. It is the finest thing he has written this year amongst a host of questionable editorial decisions such
In his time as Prime minister, John Key has
as republishing columns of The Eagle. It is not
done little that has not disappointed me, but his
that I am a hater of corporate law firms and
latest appointment of a certain Ethan Rodgers
what they do so much as I am tired of their PR
as bathroom monitor may prove to be the worst
department’s garbage being such a dominant
move of his political career. Mr. Rodgers has act-
feature of law student life.
Dear whoever answers these now that
ed in an unprofessional manner in the carriage of
I am tired of going into a toilet booth at
Callum is on gardening leave at Dunedin
his duties, declaring that I had urinated too many
Richardson and finding I have to stare at some
prison.
times for the day and was not allowed further
law firm poster put there by a clerk drone strike
access to the toilet. He even went as far as forcing
for the entirety of my shit. The law student’s
This is what happens when you don’t
me to tell him whether it was his finger or toe he
society publication Accession has had its ups
have an office cat.
held under my nose while he covered my eyes to
and downs but the last edition unfortunately read
re-earn bathroom privileges. I feel that this is a
like an elongated “My time as a summer clerk
gross abuse of the power entrusted to him and
at X” circlejerk and severely lacked investigative
I am highly disappointed in Mr. Key’s apparent
content. As you note in your article you won’t get
lack of concern for Mr. Rodgers’ aggressively
a single critical word from any of these law clerks
incompetent conduct.
about their experiences unless they are willing
Yours, Howie Staples
to risk burning corporate bridges forever. I have
We’ll get on that right away.
Yours sincerely,
met several law firm scholarship students that
Dear Critic,
Sarah Maessen.
seem terrified they will be ‘outed’ as actually
Can you please get snapchat so we can all to week? This could maybe turn into some sort
We edited out the racist bits. You’re welcome.
of competition where the best snapchats each
Dear Critic,
send you pictures of our happenings from week
hating the firm. To those people I would say… choose life! Beau
“Better still”?
week get published. Publishing’s or not I would
I never actually read your publication,
like to communicate with you on a different level.
which mainly consists of mediocre journalists
Sentences scare me.
jizzing in their pants about being able to print
I have been forced off the fences after seeing
swear words in the titles of their articles, how-
the severe subjugation of OUSA following the
Regards
ever I feel compelled to inform your readers i.e.
violent introduction of VSM a few months ago.
legs111
people with 15 minutes to kill and no iPhone
One former antagonist of OUSA and lecture
to play on of a ridiculous incident that occured
theatres every where, Stephen La Roche, has
the other day. I was in the Burns computer lab
been decidedly absent in his criticism of OUSA.
Because you shouldn’t pick on magazines with disabilities
Dear Critic,
attempting to finish a report and I was shocked
Is he simply in favour of OUSA’s current
On a recent trip to Christchurch I ended up
to find a group of hardcore gamers acting like
position vis-a-vis the University, or has he
wandering around the uni waiting for a friend
baboons on crack playing their game at max-
simply lost his mojo?
and decided to pick up a copy of their student
imum volume and shouting ridiculous things
I would encourage La Roche to stand for
magazine ‘Canter’ to pass the time.
at each other “SHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIITT!! OH SHIT! OH
President if he still wants to keep the commies
I was extremely disappointed. None of the
SHIT! FUCCCCCK! MONEY MONEY!” etc. As any
honest [OUSA, not USA, but he can have a go if
usual banter, wit and cynicism I am used to
passive aggresssive female would, I complained
he wants]. Or, better still, stand for NZ First at
receiving every Monday in Critic.
to student IT services who proceeded to come
the next election.
Instead the first few pages were full page
over and tell me that these idiots have been
news articles, not even a picture, whose titles
given permission from the Vice Chancellor to
Yours sincerely,
use the Burns computer lab as a space for their
Khan Noonien Singh
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T H E G RE E N PAG E O F S E RI O U S N E S S A N D CO U RT E SY
I would rather die.
I’m Batman.
Clarky is a dick.
Dear Critic,
Dear Sir/Madam
Dear Critic,
Here’s some food for thought:
Whooooo are you? Who-oo, oo-oo?
or eat pineapples for the rest of your life? Inevitably, both would be a sticky situation... Cheers
Ahhh ... what magazine have you been reading? Dear Critic,
I would like to object in the strongest possible terms to the allegation that Critic doesn’t
Would you rather have pineapples for hands, Sincerely,
receive enough real letters and ends up publish-
P. Townshend
ing letters written by staff members instead. I
Merry alcoholic smokers rarely have much money to spare. Dear Sir, Vice-Chancellor Harlene Hayne has told the ODT (9/5/13) that the university expects to
can assure you that this is not the case. Yours Sincerely, Sam McChesney
Clarky responds. Dear Sam McChesney,
Can we have the recipe section back please.
raise funds for future projects from its alumni.
I object to your objection. Critic writes letters
Chur.
Hayne should beware that ex-students who
to itself all the time. For instance, I am writing
were forbidden to smoke, drink and be merry
this letter right now, to you, dick.
- Hungry Hippo
Or anyone who looks like him, e.g. Rob Schneider. Dear Aaron Gilmore, good luck ever drinking a
on campus will likely show their bossy alma
Yours Sincerely,
mater the degree of affection which it deserves.
Sam “Clarky” Clark
Regards,
LETTERS POLICY
James Grant
beer in a Kiwi pub and 100% knowing that there’s
You’re just jealous. I think.
no spit or worse in it. I guess you can just hope
Dear Callum Fredric
they don’t know who you are. Cheers, Salute, Prost, Sláinte, L’chaim, Chin chin, and bottoms up, Mark Baxter
c/o- Critic Shame. Love, Win-lient
Letters should be 200 words or fewer. Deadline is Thursday at 5pm. Send letters to critic@critic.co.nz, post them to PO Box 1436, Dunedin, or drop into the Critic office. All letters must include full contact details, even if you don’t want these printed. Letters of a serious nature directly addressing a specific person or group will not be published under a pseudonym, except in extraordinary circumstances negotiated with the Editor. Critic reserves the right to edit, abridge or decline letters without explanation. We don’t fix the spelling or grammar in letters. If a writer looks stupid, it’s because they are.
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See you next week folks!
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Everything OUSA, Every Monday
The Wizard of Capping Show! LAST WEEK! If you haven’t been lucky enough to get yourself along to the hilarious OUSA Capping Show, the Wizard of Capping Show then make sure you get your tickets ASAP cos they WILL SELL OUT! Prepare yourself for a night of side splitting, cringe inducing and offensively funny sketches, dancing and singing from the World’s second longest running Capping Revue. Get your tickets from OUSA’s Main Office or from www.dashtickets.co.nz
OUSA Student Forum Thursday 16 May 2013 at 1pm, outside the Link near Careers and Lex Coffee Hub or in the Main Common Room if wet.
President’s Column Spirit Fest The diverse range of spiritual beliefs (and lack of) here in Otago is one of the
This forum will be an opportunity for students to discuss the referendum
many treasured assets here on campus. From Buddhism to Roman Catholicism,
questions, which will be publicised before hand on our website and
this University has it all.
facebook.
Free T-shirts for IDAHOT May 17th is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and OUSA Queer Support will be giving away t-shirts from the Link Courtyard between 12 and 2pm on May 17th. Come and claim yours to show your support!
Although there’s a lot of bad PR about religion, there’s also positive aspects to it. It can give comfort to the afflicted, succour to the stressed, and a lot of religious groups do a range of positive community activities such as running food banks. That’s why I’m proud to invite you to the Spirituality Fest that we’re hosting with the Otago Student Interfaith Group on Thursday 16 May. There will be a wide range of faiths on display and a live performance at the Gazebo Lounge from 12.15 pm onwards on Thursday. There will also be stalls for a number of the groups represented in the link that you can talk to. Overall, it’s looking set to be an exciting spiritual festival. Hope to see you there. Changing topic completely. Bars. OUSA is in a fairly unique position in that out of the ‘big’ student associations we are the only one not to have a student pub. If we were to have one (and I’m not saying we are planning to) , what would it look like? What sort of things would it provide? What’s should the general ‘vibe’ of the place be? What else would be cool to have in a student pub? Send your thoughts to me at president@ousa.org.nz
Francisco Hernandez - OUSA President
OUSA Poetry Competition: Winners Announced! Thanks to all those who entered in this semester’s poetry competition. The competition attracted more people than expected and the quality of work was outstanding. Congratulations to Rhys Livingstone (with his poem Symphony), Charlotte Bremer (with Cold War) and Greg Faxon (with How to be Smooth) for winning first, second and third respectively. Also well done to the highly commended poets; Oliver Hailes, Haldis Anderson, Mika Mintz and Madison Hamill. We had an amazing number of entries so keep an eye out for another comp next semester!
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